2024 Tarqumiyah shooting

{{Short description|2024 shootout in Hebron Governorate, Palestine}}

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{{Infobox military conflict

| conflict = 2024 Tarqumiyah shootout

| date = {{start date|2024|09|01|df=y}}

| place = Tarqumiyah, Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine

| result = Palestinian victory

| combatant1 = {{flag|Israel}}

| combatant2 = {{flagicon|Palestine}} Khalil al-Rahman Brigade

| commander1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Israel Police V2.svg}} Roni Shakuri{{KIA}}
{{flagicon image|Flag of Israel Police V2.svg}} Arik Ben Eliyahu{{KIA}}
{{flagicon image|Flag of Israel Police V2.svg}} Hadas Branch{{KIA}}

| commander2 = {{flagicon|Palestine}} Unknown

| units1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Israel Police V2.svg}} Israeli Police

| units2 = {{flagicon|Palestine}} Unknown

| strength1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Israel Police V2.svg}} 3 police officers

| strength2 = {{flagicon|Palestine}} 1 fighter{{cite web|url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/three-israeli-officers-killed-former-member-palestinian-authority|title=Three Israeli officers killed by former Palestinian Presidential Guard|work=Middle East Eye|date=1 September 2024}}

| casualties1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Israel Police V2.svg}} 3 Israeli police officers killed

| casualties2 = {{flagicon|Palestine}} None

| casualties3 =

| partof = the Israeli incursion attacks on Palestine and Israeli–Palestinian conflict

}}

The 2024 Tarqumiyah shootout was a drive-by shooting on 1 September 2024 in which three Israeli police officers were shot dead by a gunman from Hebron close to Tarqumiyah checkpoint. The shooting took place on route 35 in the Hebron Governorate of Palestine.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-01 |title=Three killed in West Bank terror attack near Hebron |url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-817201 |access-date=2024-09-01 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en |archive-date=2024-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901060655/https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-817201 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last1=Zitun |first1=Yoav |last2=Kimon |first2=Elisha Ben |date=2024-09-01 |title=Three Israeli cops killed in drive-by shooting attack near Hebron |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjgimowha |access-date=2024-09-01 |work=Ynetnews |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Fabian |first=Emanuel |date=2024-09-01 |title=3 cops killed in southern West Bank shooting attack; IDF pursuing gunmen |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/3-killed-in-southern-west-bank-shooting-attack-idf-pursuing-gunmen/ |access-date=2024-09-01 |work=The Times of Israel}}

Background

The 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank{{Cite web |date=31 August 2024 |title=Israeli soldiers besiege Jenin on fourth day of West Bank assault |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/31/israeli-soldiers-besiege-jenin-as-assault-on-west-bank-enters-fourth-day |access-date=1 September 2024 |website=Al Jazeera |archive-date=1 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901042945/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/31/israeli-soldiers-besiege-jenin-as-assault-on-west-bank-enters-fourth-day |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2024-08-27 |title=Are West Bank terrorists as dangerous as the ones once in Gaza? - analysis |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-816670 |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en}} in August was followed two attacks in Gush Etzion including a car bombing and a roadside bomb. In all cases, the perpetrators were from Hebron.

Attack

Shortly after 9 a.m., three Israeli officers were killed in a drive-by shooting. The gunman later abandoned the car by the roadside and escaped on foot. A man and woman in their 30s and a man in his 50s were in critical condition and died shortly after.

= Casualties =

The three Israeli police officers killed in the attack were identified as Roni Shakuri, Arik Ben Eliyahu and Hadas Branch. Roni Shakuri, 61, was the father of Mor Shakuri, who was killed in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-01 |title=Terror in West Bank: Three police officers shot dead near Hebron |url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-817201 |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en}}

= Attacker =

The shooting was carried out by a lone perpetrator, identified as a resident of Hebron born in Jordan who worked as a security officer for the Palestinian Presidential Guard until 2015. He was later killed by Israeli soldiers who besieged his home in Hebron.{{cite web|url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/three-israeli-officers-killed-former-member-palestinian-authority|title=Three Israeli officers killed by former Palestinian Presidential Guard|work=Middle East Eye|date=1 September 2024}}

The Khalil al-Rahman Brigade claimed responsibility for the shooting, which was praised by Hamas.{{Cite web |date=1 September 2024 |title=Israeli officers killed in West Bank shooting amid deadly Jenin raids |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/1/two-israelis-killed-in-west-bank-shooting-amid-deadly-jenin-raids |access-date=1 September 2024 |website=Al Jazeera}}