Israeli hunt on as Jewish couple shot dead in car
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HUNDREDS of Israeli troops were searching the West Bank yesterday for the suspected Palestinian killers of a Jewish settler couple shot in their car before their young children’s eyes, the army said.
Rabbi Eitam Henkin and his wife, Naama, both in their 30s, were shot as they were traveling in their car on Thursday night between the settlements of Itamar and Elon More, north of the Israeli-occupied territory.
Their four children, aged between 4 months and 9 years, were found unharmed in the back of the vehicle.
Army spokesman Colonel Peter Lerner said the Henkin couple was “massacred right in front of” them. A paramedic described the scene of the shooting as “difficult.”
“We saw a car in the middle of the road, and next to it, a man in his 30s lay on the ground with upper body gunshot wounds,” Boaz Malka was quoted as saying by Israeli media.
Israel’s foreign ministry said “at least two” gunmen targeted the vehicle in a “drive-by” attack, but the exact circumstances of the incident were unclear.
Israeli forces were conducting an “intensive search” on the ground, said army spokesman Arye Shalicar.
The Henkins were residents of the Neria settlement, northwest of Ramallah.
The foreign ministry said they were returning from a graduation ceremony at a Jewish school when the shooting occurred around 9pm.
The Henkins were buried yesterday in Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuhot cemetery at a ceremony attended by thousands of mourners, including Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
The site of the shooting was near the Palestinian village of Beit Furik, where a Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces during clashes last month.
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