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Israeli forces kill Palestinian suspected over West Bank shooting

Israeli security forces on Wednesday shot dead a Palestinian suspected in the shooting of seven Israelis including a pregnant woman whose baby later died.

The Shin Bet security service said in a statement that a suspect named as Salah Omar Barghouti, 29, who tried to evade capture during a raid on a West Bank village was shot and killed.

The statement did not say if Barghouti was suspected of being the gunman or an accomplice. It said an unspecified number of other suspects were arrested.

The Shin Bet announcement came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that those who carried out Sundays drive-by shooting near a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West bank would be found and brought to justice.

He spoke shortly after a Jerusalem hospital announced the death of the baby boy, delivered by emergency caesarean section after his mother was shot. She was 30-weeks pregnant.

“We lost a few hours ago a newborn baby, four days old,” Netanyahu said in an address to foreign media. “We will find the killers, we havent stopped searching. We will find them and bring them to justice,” he said.

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The newborn was buried late Wednesday on Jerusalems Mount of Olives, opposite the walled Old City. US peace envoy Jason Greenblatt said in a Twitter message that the death was “absolutely heart-breaking”.

“My thoughts & prayers are with the family of the baby who died today as a result of the despicable terror attack on Sunday,” he wrote. “This is an attack Hamas praised as heroic“.

“The world must strongly condemn this terror and not remain silent,” Israels ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said in a statement.

Following the attack the 21-year-old mother was reported as stable, but the Shaare Zedek hospital said Monday that her baby had taken a turn for the worse.

The child died “despite the medical efforts of the premature baby unit to save him,” the hospital said on Wednesday. Palestinian attacks against Israelis occur sporadically in the West Bank.

Sundays shooting north of Jerusalem was the most serious attack in the West Bank since October 7, when Palestinian Ashraf Naalwa shot two Israelis dead in an industrial zone for a nearby settlement.

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Last Update: Thursday, 13 December 2018 KSA 08:56 – GMT 05:56

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