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Posted on May 17, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Israeli military killed a Palestinian suspect in the West Bank linked to an attack on a pregnant settler. The region has seen increased unrest recently.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli military said on Saturday that it killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank among a group suspected of being involved in an attack that killed a pregnant Israeli settler as she travelled to hospital to give birth this week.
The woman, Tzeela Gez, was shot on Wednesday near the Brukhin settlement and pronounced dead at the hospital where her baby was delivered by caesarean section.
On Saturday, the military said several males suspected of involvement in the attack had been apprehended in the West Bank.
During the apprehension, one of the suspects "was identified running toward the forces while holding a backpack suspected of being booby-trapped" and shouting, the military said.
"In response to the immediate threat, the soldiers eliminated" the suspect, it added.
Separately, Israel's military said it had also killed five Palestinian militants in the West Bank on Thursday.
The West Bank, where hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers live among around 3 million Palestinians in territory Israel captured in a 1967 war, has seen an intensification of unrest in recent weeks as Israel mounts military operations against militants.
(Reporting by Emily Rose, Ali SawaftaEditing by Peter Graff)
The article discusses an Israeli military operation in the West Bank resulting in the death of a Palestinian suspect linked to an attack on an Israeli settler.
The Israeli settler, Tzeela Gez, was shot and killed while traveling to the hospital to give birth.
The West Bank has experienced increased unrest and military operations by Israel against Palestinian militants.
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