An Israeli-American citizen was killed in the occupied West Bank as tensions in the region continued to ratchet up after a weekend of violence
Elan Ganeles, 27, was shot dead on Monday evening in what Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service described as a “terror attack” on a highway between Jericho and the Dead Sea. The attack took place on Route 90, north of the Beit Ha’Arava Junction, the MDA said. The location is normally peaceful and on one of the main routes for Israelis to visit the Dead Sea. Ganeles was visiting Israel for a friend’s wedding and lived in the United States, friends of his told CNN on Tuesday.
” The US State Department confirmed an Israeli-American citizen had been killed, and said it was “extremely concerned by the events of this weekend and the continuing violence in Israel and the West Bank.” Ganeles’s death came after a mob of Israeli settlers went on a rampage Sunday in Huwara, south of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing one Palestinian, beating others with metal bars, and stoning a Palestinian fire engine after burning several homes.
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