A Palestinian Authority terrorist stood by the side of highway 35, west of Hebron and shot at passing cars with an AK-47, on Monday afternoon, Passover eve.

One of the passing cars was hit, and the driver, the father (46) was killed. The pregnant mother (28) and one of their sons (9) were injured in the attack.

The murdered man was identified as police Chief Superintendent Baruch Mizrachi, a father of 5, from Modi’in.

Mizrachi was the head of the police’s SIGINT unit, and before that was a Lt. Colonel in the IDF intelligence unit 8200.

The family were an their way to a Passover Seder in Kiryat Arba at the time.

The IDF is still searching for the terrorists, and believe this may have been the action of a group of terrorists and not a lone shooter.

PM Netanyahu has blamed the Palestinian Authority for the attack, saying it is a result of their incitement.

Minister Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi) said that every terrorist release emboldens the terrorists, and demands the government cancels all future releases, and makes the cancelling of any PA steps at the UN a precondition to continuing any peace talks.

The IDF spokesperson reports that during an operation to catch Arab terrorists throwing stones at cars on the road, IDF troops shot and killed a stone-throwing terrorist.

The operation took place near Beit El, after Jewish-owned cars and buses were repeatedly attacked by Arab stone throwers, resulting in damages and injury to the drivers and their vehicles.

The IDF opened fire on the terrorist as he was throwing a stone at a moving vehicle. Medical personnel tried to save the terrorist, but in the end he died from his wounds.

The terrorist’s body was taken to Ramallah.

On Monday morning, a Palestinian Authority Arab tried to grab a gun from an IDF soldier, while yelling “Alahu Ahkbar”, near the terminal at the Allenby Bridge. IDF soldiers, from the Engineering corps, shot and killed the terrorist, according to Galei Tzahal.

The crossing has been temporarily closed following the attack.

The terrorist was identified as Raed Za’eiter (38), formerly of Shechem (Nablus). The Palestinian Authority Prime Minister said that Za’eiter worked as a civil court judge in Jordan.

The Allenby Bridge is the primary land-crossing point between Israel and Jordan. It was first built in 1885 by the Ottomans, rebuilt in 1918, destroyed in 1946, rebuilt again in 1968 (the wood bridge pictured above), and then finally a modern bridge was built adjacent to the wood bridge in the 1990s.

The bridge is also called the King Hussein Bridge.

On Saturday, approximately 100 Arabs attacked a unit of IDF soldiers with rocks, near the town of Shaked in the Shomron.

One of the soldiers, a senior officer from the Nachal-Haredi unit, shot one of the stone throwers in the knee.

The stone thrower was evacuated for medical treatment.

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Eden Atias is the name of the IDF soldier who was murdered this morning. He joined the IDF 3 weeks ago. He was 19 years old, a resident of Natzrath (Nazareth) Illit.

The terrorist’s name is Hussein Jawadara, of Jenin. Both of the terrorist’s brothers are imprisoned in Israeli prisons for terrorist activities. One of them murdered a Jew when he was only 15.

Doctors at the hospital fought for Atias’s life but were unable to save him.

The soldier was stabbed all over his body, including his neck, as he slept on bus number 823 from Nazareth, at the central bus station in Afula.

The 15-year-old Arab terrorist entered Israel illegally. He was captured by bus passengers and turned over to security forces.

The attack weapon, a knife, was recovered at the scene.

On Thursday night, a Palestinian Authority Arab terrorist tried to stab border policemen guarding a checkpoint near Beit Lechem. One of the border policeman shot the terrorist in the stomach.

UPDATE: 7:06 PM - The explosive device on the terrorist’s body has been neutralized.

ORIGINAL REPORT:

An Arab terrorist opened fire with a flare gun on an IDF soldier and some youths standing at a hitchhiking post at the Tapuach junction in the Shomron.

The soldier returned fire, killing the terrorist. There are no reports of any other people injured or killed in the attack.

The area around the junction has been cleared as the IDF disarms an explosive device on his body.

The junction is currently closed to all traffic.