The sufferer was recognized as Shalev Zvuluny, 22, a resident of the Jewish neighborhood of Kiryat Arba, who labored as a shopping center safety guard.
JNS Employees Report
July 10, 2025
Palestinian terrorists killed an Israeli man in his 20s on the Gush Etzion Junction shopping center in Judea on Thursday afternoon in a mixed taking pictures and stabbing assault, medical authorities mentioned.
The Magen David Adom medical emergency response group mentioned its paramedics pronounced him useless on the scene. Two terrorists had been “neutralized” on the spot, the assertion mentioned.
The sufferer was recognized as Shalev Zvuluny, 22, a resident of the Jewish neighborhood of Kiryat Arba close to Hebron. He was employed as a safety guard on the shopping center.
The terrorists had been named by Arab media as Mahmoud Abed, from the close by village of Halhul, and Malik Salem, from Tulkarem in Samaria. Each reportedly served within the Palestinian Authority’s police forces.
“Two terrorists arrived on the scene and performed a mixed taking pictures and stabbing assault,” the Israel Protection Forces mentioned in an announcement on X.
“IDF troopers and extra safety personnel on the scene fired towards the terrorists and eradicated them,” added the army.
MDA medic Ahiad Goharian, who was the primary to reach on the scene, mentioned: “We noticed a younger man—about 20 years outdated—mendacity unconscious, with no pulse and never respiratory, with gunshot wounds.
“We carried out medical examinations, however sadly, his wounds had been extreme, and we had been compelled to declare him useless,” Goharian mentioned.
From Washington, Netanyahu gives condolences
The Israel Police reported “a number of casualties with various levels of harm” within the assault, saying that its officers had been working alongside the IDF and different first responders to “acquire full management [of the scene], deal with the casualties and conduct searches for extra suspects.”
Judea and Samaria District police chief Cmdr. Moshe Pinchi was mentioned to have made his method to the Gush Etzion Junction to judge the state of affairs.
Following the terrorist assault, safety forces arrange roadblocks and encircled the Palestinian village of Halhul, situated within the Hebron space about 5 miles southwest of the Gush Etzion Junction, the IDF mentioned.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu known as Gush Etzion Regional Council head Yaron Rosenthal to supply his condolences, his workplace said.
Netanyahu “supplied condolences on behalf of himself and his spouse to the household of the sufferer of the brutal taking pictures assault, in addition to a speedy restoration to the injured,” in response to the Prime Minister’s Workplace.
The premier “praised residents and safety forces who acted with nice resourcefulness and eradicated the vile terrorists, and mentioned that we are going to not enable terror to boost its head in Judea and Samaria,” the PMO added.
‘An finish to the coverage of remoted responses’
Israeli International Minister Gideon Sa’ar commented on the homicide throughout a press convention in Vienna, the place he spoke alongside his Austrian and German counterparts.
“A really brief time in the past, an Israeli, 20 years outdated, was killed by a terrorist close to the junction of Gush Etzion,” the diplomat mentioned in his remarks. “So when there can be a dialogue within the E.U. about what is known as ‘settler violence,’ please keep in mind that the general public, which is greater than every other public on this planet, is uncovered to terror and violence, are the settlers.”
The Yesha Council, which represents the approximate 500,000 Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, mourned the sufferer and expressed its “assist for the safety forces working within the area.
“The federal government of Israel should put an finish to the coverage of remoted responses and defeat Arab terror by making use of Israeli sovereignty all through Judea and Samaria, alongside broad-scale army operations,” in response to the umbrella group.
The council famous that Judea and Samaria had been “the one entrance amongst all of the warfare arenas the place there has but to be a strategic shift” for the reason that Hamas-led bloodbath in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, saying “the time has come to alter course.”
Palestinian terrorists targeted Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria not less than 6,343 occasions final yr, in response to figures printed by the Rescuers With out Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) NGO on Feb. 17.
Twenty-seven Israelis had been murdered in Judea and Samaria in 2024, and greater than 300 others had been wounded, the group mentioned in its annual report.
