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Gunman kills 3 Israelis, wounds 3 othersAl Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claims responsibility
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A Palestinian man shot and killed three Israelis late Tuesday and wounded three others in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Hermesh before Israeli forces shot him dead, the Israel Defense Forces said. The militant Islamic group Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. The dead included an elderly woman and two teenage girls identified by the IDF as Linoi Saroussi, 14, Hadas Turgeman, 14 and Orna Eshel, 53. Saroussi was buried Wednesday in the Yarkon cemetery near Tel Aviv and Hadas Turgeman was buried later in the day in a Netanya cemetery, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported. Residents of the small settlement of some 40 families said the terrorist slipped under a back gate near the residential area about 10:30 p.m., opening fire in all directions, according to Ha'aretz. He came upon the two girls, shooting them, and was then fired on by a woman in the area, the paper reported. Her handgun jammed, however, and witnesses said the terrorist then entered a house, hitting a man and woman there, Ha'aretz said. The Brigades, which is the militant offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks against military targets and civilians in Israel and in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian sources said the group was behind last Sunday's suicide bombing near a gas station, which killed the bomber and three IDF reservists outside the Jewish settlement of Ariel. Earlier Tuesday, the Israeli military killed a senior member of the Islamic militant group Hamas in the West Bank town of Tubas, Israeli government security sources said. According to the sources, the IDF killed Hassan Satwata, 20, after he was found in a "hiding place, while armed with a loaded M-16 rifle and ammunition belt." He is accused by Israel of preparing a suicide bomber who carried out an attack on Kibbutz Shluhah in which an Israeli woman was killed. Israeli sources said the IDF on Tuesday arrested a suicide bomber trained by Satwata who, they alleged, was on his way to attack a target in Haifa. They also accused Satwata of planning suicide attacks to be carried out in Israel during the coming days. Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization, has been labeled by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. The group's military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, has admitted responsibility for terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians as well as attacks against the Israeli military.
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