Israel has deployed hundreds of troops in a hunt for suspected
Palestinian gunmen after an Israeli couple were killed in front of their
children in the occupied West Bank.
Eitam and Naama Henkin, both in
their 30s, were shot dead while driving on Thursday night between the
settlements of Itamar and Elon More, in the north of the Palestinian
territory.
Their four children, aged between four months and nine years, were
found unharmed in the back of the car. Arye Shalicar, Israeli army
spokesman, said that the security forces were conducting an “intensive
search” on the ground combined with intelligence efforts. The Henkins
were residents of the central West Bank settlement Neria, northwest of
Ramallah. They were to be buried in Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuhot cemetary
at 08:00 GMT on Friday.
In the Palestinian village of Beitillu, a short distance from Neria,
assailants torched a car and spray-painted “Revenge Henkin” on a nearby
wall, the army said on Friday, noting that nobody was hurt. Apprehensive
of rising tensions among settlers and Palestinians, the army said it
would be deploying “four battalions in order to prevent an escalation of
violence in the area adjacent to the location of the attack”.
Aljazeera.
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