 It raises the chances that if there are to be violent incidences, violent attacks, that the chances are them happening in areas with the highest friction. Now, I will remind you that the attack in Hawa'a, Israeli forces are still hunting down, are still searching for the attacker and for the terrorists in that attack. As of now, there is still no information regarding who carried out this shooting attack. It is believed to have according to initial reports by a passing car, a drive by shooting, if you will. And so that would mean that we have now two attacks in which the perpetrators managed to flee the scene. Again, the moments after attack are usually the most critical to try and cordon off the area and apprehend the suspects. I believe that is exactly what Israeli security forces are doing right now. I'd like to pay devil's advocate if you'd let me. The West Bank, what we've been discussing at least with security experts and military experts in the region is very different to an area such as Gaza where the Israeli military is unable to go in, take back any sort of control, put down any kind of pressure in these areas. Surely, the news in the last couple of weeks, the last couple of months of these sporadic attacks, hack-a-penning in both the north, the center and the south of the West Bank, could be seen, at least to internationals, watching the situation here that the army does not have things under control. Well, in a place like the West Bank, given that most of these attacks are not carried out by organized groups, by a proper chain of command, a lot of the times we're talking about kind of personal initiatives that are obviously built on the hotbed of incitement and calls for violence and attacks by Palestinian terror groups. But when you're looking at that MO of an individual without any official affiliation to a terror group, it makes thwarting these attacks and makes them pretty much impossible, very, very challenging for Israeli security forces to get wind of such an attack before it happens. And so a lot of the times it's just dealing with them after they happen because these are attacks that are very, very challenging to thwart. The decision is made in this particular moment. Other times it builds on discontent and frustration, others religious incitement, but at the end of the day, as long as these attacks, most of them are not carried out by organized groups, it makes it virtually impossible for Israeli security forces as good as they may be, even groups like Shabbat, Israel's internal security agency, to get wind in advance, to find the suspects and to arrest them in advance. Today's attack obviously proves that and indeed there is already a manhunt, as I mentioned, to try and find the shooters, shooter or shooters in this morning's attack. Ariel, stay with us. I do want to cross now and bring in retired colonel Dr. Jean Nairia, the former deputy head of assessment for the Israeli military intelligence and the former foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabben. Thank you for being with us on such short notice, developing news coming out of the West Bank. We've been discussing here in studio what more we know, but we are now hearing that the entry and exits toward this area are being closed and that two people seem to be in severe condition. What more can you tell us? Well, as far as I know, there were two women that were very badly hurt and wounded. And I mean, this is a passerby car, shooting by passing car. This is definitely a pattern that has been adopted lately by Palestinian terrorists. It's easy for them to carry on such operations and then they very quickly vanish in the area, leave the car, just burn it again in order to not leave any. Any prints over there? The thing is that access road 60 is the main access from north to south in the West Bank. And it's been talked very, very much in the past about bypassing this road by constructing a parallel road, which is not happening for a long time because of budgetary problem and because also of not wanting to subdue to the Palestinian terrorism. But the only thing is that right now that is left. I mean, I have heard the remarks said earlier is just to double the checkpoints on the road and to stop every now and then cars that are suspicious. This is the only way on the defensive that you can just try to avoid such attacks. But definitely this is not hermetic. And as you mentioned at the moment, there is no such parallel road on that main thorough through. But at the current and present time, as our correspondent was explaining to us, both Jews and Arabs make use of a very prominent road, that road 60. How quick is the response time from either the IDF that could be in the area, but also the any kind of health ambulance emergency services, given that this appears to be an area in an incredibly volatile situation? Well, you know, until now, everybody thought that the main area of the main nest of terms was in the north, in the area of Janine and the area of to come continue. This is the area. Now it appears that we have also Jericho. We have also Hebron. So I mean, it's all over the it's all over the area. The problem is that how much can you deploy the army? We have already between 30 to 40 battalions all over the place. And I think that, I mean, stretching more than that would definitely hurt the deployment of the IDF, facing Hisbana in the north and the Gaza Strip. So the limits for for how much can the army invest in personnel and in trying to to defend the area? But definitely this is here a political issue. And if the government will decide that this is so, then the army will just deploy more and more elements and try to carry on a surprise surprise check and checkpoints all over the the access. And this is the only way that you can prevent and just deter possible terrorists in the area. Dr. Jacques Nairie, I'd like to thank you very much for coming on and for breaking that down. We are getting more reports now from Israel's National Emergency Service, Magendavid, a dorm that two people, a man and a woman have been injured. One is in critical condition. The other one is in severe condition. And again, this taking place near Hebron in the south of the West Bank. We'll be right back after this break with more updates on this breaking news story. Stay with us. 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This is an area that we were reporting just before the break is traveled on by both Jews and Arabs in the area. There was an indication of some kind of parallel road set to be built, but due to budget cuts and obviously not having the initial funds, that plan was shoved aside. In the meantime, we are also hearing that there have been two victims so far, both seem to be in extremely dire condition. One is in serious, the other is in critical. And I'd like to go back now to Dr. Jacques Neria who joined us just before we went out for the break. He is the former deputy head of assessment for Israel's military intelligence and a former foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. This really is a very intense situation in a region where the majority of the incidents that we've been reporting on have come from the northern area outside of Jenin, outside of Nablus. What are we currently seeing in this area in the south? And we are just hearing reports in that one of those victims, a female, has in fact been pronounced dead. The first one, I'm very sorry to hear that. And I think that unfortunately this is not the end of it. We are facing a wave of terrorism that has been fed by lots of elements incitement from out there, from abroad, from Hisbana, from Iran, from Gaza, from the Islamic Jihad on the way there. So this is definitely, I mean, if these are lone wolves, they certainly must have been incited by the social media and by the fact that they have their own understanding of the situation. And they are ready to carry terrorist attacks against the Israeli targets. And it doesn't matter for them if these are civilians or soldiers. The important is just to hit as far as much as possible in order to hurt the Israelis. And they know that the answer, that the answer that Israel has is very limited. I mean, as I said earlier, there are limits to the deployment of the army in the West Bank. And as we have seen, I mean, first we thought that this was only Janine and the area in the North. And then it just went downwards and southward towards Nablus. And then now it's Hebron and Jericho also. So this is definitely a wave that is fed by lots of elements and certainly also by the policy that is carried out by this extreme government that we have. And speaking of policies, Doctor, how exactly does an attack like today get carried over into politics? We're talking about one of the most far-right governments that has ever been voted into power democratically by the people of Israel who campaigned on a promise to make sure that terrorists will pay to stop what is going on in the West Bank. And yet in recent weeks, we have been reporting nonstop here from the studio of consistent attacks throughout the West Bank. And so what exactly is going to be happening from a political standpoint? Is this government going to last? And are they going to actually follow through on their campaign promises? We are just a small step before creating an apartheid state in the West Bank. Separate routes, separate buses, separate roads, separate settlements. And this is definitely not what we would like to show to the entire world. So there is a limit, as I said, about what's happening. And certainly the judicial reform with weakening our judges. And it makes us much more, I would say, targets of international organizations that are waiting for Israelis to come and to land in Europe in order to carry against them, against them, the judgment as a criminal support. So this is very, very problematic. And the thing is that the more the terrorism is created, the less the government has answers. There was no government in Israel for the last 30 years that has not promised all the audiences being from left or right that they will just overcome terrorism, that will eradicate terrorism, and so on and so on. And the fact is that this is not the way. This is not the fact that we have on the ground because this is a popular element that is difficult to eradicate. I mean, you cannot, I mean, on the one hand, just proclaim that you want to annex all the areas that under the seed agreement between us and the Parisian Authority. You cannot ask, you cannot accuse the Parisian Authority to be weak if you weaken them for years. And you ask them just to limit them. So there is a contradiction in the policy of the government. And this government has to decide finally what it wants. Does it want to rule or just want to annex the two and a half million Palestinians? If this is so, then the wave is not over. The wave is just beginning. Right. Colonel Dr. Jacques Nairia, retired colonel Dr. Jacques Nairia, former deputy head of assessment for Israeli military intelligence and a former foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. I'd like to thank you very much for your analysis. And crossing now on the phone to Nadav Matsner, the spokesperson for Magin David Adam. I appreciate you taking the time to be with us here this morning. What can you tell us necessarily on the conditions of the victims in this attack? Hello. Good morning. Both of them in a critical condition about half an hour ago, we got the dispatch and Magendavid Nondispatch call about the gunshot wounded south to Akirat Arba. A 35-year-old male is evacuated right now in a military and in a car unit to Sturroga Hospital. And a 40-year-old woman is being treated on scene. She is unconscious in a critical condition. She's still unconscious in critical condition. Do we have any idea with regards to what exactly unfolded when this call came in to Magendavid Adam? Initial reports say that the hotline received a request after a shooting attack occurred on Route 60 in the south of the West Bank area. Yes, this is what we got from in our emergency fold. That two persons, the woman and the woman are severely injured because of a gunshot wound in Route 60. What more do we know about these people as individuals? What do we know about their ages, their gender? A male and a female woman still don't know their identity if they were a couple of what the connection between them we still don't know. As I said, one of them is on his way to Sturroga and the woman is taking care on scene. She is in critical condition. Now, Dave, give us an estimation of just how far away the hospital is in a sense of trying to explain to the audience how quick this really is and why the second person that we're talking about had to be treated on the scene and was not able to be moved to the hospital. Depend of the wounded, you need to take care of the persons at first to make them stable for the evacuation. Sturroga Hospital is something like 25 minutes evacuation, maybe 30 on the ambulance by road. And the woman is now not enough stable even to take into the evacuation to the hospital. For now, we're trying to do the best we can on scene so we'll be able to take care of her and on the way to the hospital. And just lastly, Nadav, before we let you go, this is a road that is incredibly busy with both Jews and Arabs making use of this thoroughfare. How quick is this or how likely is this that emergency services can get to the area and how often are they needed to be? We are on alert 24-7, coordinate with the military, with the medics of the military and in a bulletproof ambulance specific for those kinds of events. We know to get to any scene wherever we need in a few moments just like in this one, just a few minutes after the calling, the emergency line, the MDA paramedics and the IDF paramedics were on scene and it gave medical attention to the wounded. Nadav Matzner, the spokesperson for Maghen David Adom, Israel's National Emergency Services. Thank you very much for taking the time to be with us and with those important updates this morning. Thank you. Still with me in studio is our Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran. Ariel, normally in cases like this, whether it was an actual terrorist group that is known in the area or whether they were lone wolves, they tend to affiliate themselves with some kind of terrorist group. Do we know anything at the moment about the suspects, his allegiances and has there been any comment out of any of the Palestinian groups in the area? Right, Bhatia. So we don't know in fact how many perpetrators, how many attackers that were in this incident. There is a chopper was deployed to the area and there's a large scale manhunt in the area. But as to the latter part of the question, yes as usual Hamas quick to praise today's attack. It's as if they have automatic messages that just they press send the moment they hear that there is such an attack. And indeed it actually echoes things that we discussed here in studio because the spokesperson for Hamas, Hazem Qasem said quote, the valiant resistance in the West Bank strikes again with force and defiance in the north and center of the West Bank and today in the south. So indeed they're trying to show the prevalence of these attacks all across the territories of the West Bank. They're saying that this comes as a natural response to Israeli activity and but they do fall short of claiming responsibility for this attack and this is usually the general MO, what usually happens and individual attacker or attackers that albeit don't have necessarily any official affiliation to these groups including Hamas. But once the attack is carried out Hamas, we should expect a similar statement soon by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Try to cast their umbrella over these attacks trying to show that it comes within their incitement, their calls for attacks. But indeed the manhunt is still underway and there's a lot more information to be gathered as time progresses. Ariel stay with us because I do want to cross now live to Yaakov Lapin a military and strategic affairs analyst for the Jewish New Syndicate and at the Miriam Institute. Yaakov this is obviously still besides being a breaking news story a developing news story as more information is coming to light. Is this perhaps being sent as a message by Palestinian terror groups with regards to Israel's far-right government? No, I don't think that that's the primary reason for what we're seeing. I think that we are in the middle of a prolonged terrorism wave that has really been going on for over a year and a half. If you just look at some of the figures in the whole of 2022, we had about 285 shooting attacks in the West Bank. Now we're in the middle more or less of 2023 and we're already at almost 200 shooting attacks. So that can give us an indication of the fact that unfortunately and tragically this has become the new normal. We are in an escalation that is showing no signs of ending. It is fueled by several factors. One of them is the prevalence of firearms. The West Bank is simply flooded with guns. So whereas in the past, Palestinians who wanted to attack Israelis would have used rocks. They now are able to have easy and affordable access to firearms, whether those are stolen from IDF bases in Israel, whether they're smuggled in from Jordan or produced in West Bank gun workshops. We have financing from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad from Gaza and encouragement. We have Iranian financing for this kind of activity. 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The IDF has said that troops have been dispatched to the scene and are launching a manhunt for the shooters. This is still a developing story with news updates coming out by the minute. I'd like to now cross live to Yaakov Lapin, a military and strategic affairs analyst for the Jewish News Syndicate and at the Miriam Institute. Yaakov, this really is quite chilling given the fact that it's coming off the back of what has been an incredibly difficult weekend as well. This being possibly the third time that an attack has happened and the second that it has been fatal. Yes, absolutely. And again, if we look at the figures, it's clear that we're in an extended escalation situation in the whole of 2022, which itself was a year that witnessed quite a lot of terrorism, Palestinian terrorism. We had 31 Israelis killed that year. Now we're in the middle of 2023 and we have 35 Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorism. So that just shows, in addition to the firearm statistic that we were looking at earlier, that we are in the middle of a prolonged escalation and it's so prolonged. It's been going on for almost two years now that this has unfortunately become the new normal. I think that it's also important to point out that for every one of these attacks, something like 10 terrorist attacks are foiled. And that is because of the tireless efforts that the IDF and the Shin Bet put into counterterrorism raids. Every night, they raid addresses throughout the West Bank and preempt many of these attacks. But they are not able to stop all of them. They're not able to be everywhere. And there's a limit to what this preemption can do, especially when we talk about, again, the extent of firearms that are available in the West Bank flooding the West Bank, the assistance that these gunmen are receiving from Hamas, from Palestinian Islamic jihad, from Iran and the general atmosphere and instability within the Palestinian Authority and Fatah itself. So when you put all of these things together and friction with Israelis in the West Bank, you have this powder keg. And unfortunately, we are in the middle of a very prolonged escalation that is showing no signs of slowing down. Yaakov Lapin, I want to thank you very much for your time and your analysis. I want to also ask you to please stay with us. But I want to cross to our correspondent, our Middle East correspondent here in studio, Ariel Oceran. We mentioned earlier that the entrances and the exits, at least to this area, have been blocked for now. There's a manhunt ongoing. We don't know much yet about the suspect, but what do we know in terms of what Palestinian terror groups are saying about it? Well, both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad, quick to issue statements praising the attack, as I stated regarding the Hamas statement, saying that this is a natural response to the different attacks and steps by Israel. Now, as part of this manhunt, the Palestinians are reporting that Israeli forces have closed the northern entrance to the city of Hebron, causing traffic jams in the area. Add to that, helicopters surveying the area. Indeed, a lot of forces are deployed to try and apprehend the suspect or suspects. At this point, it remains unclear how many people we're talking about, where they're coming from. This is, in these critical moments, this is exactly what Israeli security forces, not just the military. Also, I would imagine the Shin Bet is involved in this investigation, trying to first apprehend the suspects, and after that, try and discern what is the motive and different reasons, causes for today's attack. Absolutely. And obviously, as we just mentioned, this coming off the backs of a very, very difficult weekend. How is it that Israeli society is going to be responding to this? Again, we'll point out that this is the most far-right government that Israel has seen in its existence, but it was voted in by the majority of people, the majority of people who really wanted to see what the far-right government's campaign promise of making sure that terrorism, in particular in these areas, stops. How can they possibly be reacting to the surely there's going to be some anger being pushed toward the government? Indeed, Batian, as accustomed to this current government, they're their best opposition. You hear ready elements inside the coalition accusing the most, as they call, a full-right government that they're not able to prevent these kinds of attacks, asking for a heavy hand against the perpetrators, but also asking, as we saw, following the attack in Hawara on Saturday, also on Route 60, even though it's farther up north in the West Bank, calling for the, quote-unquote, designist response of approving more Israeli homes, more Jewish settlements, in an attempt to try and respond to these attacks. But indeed, this does have a political element to it. As I mentioned, we're already hearing criticism towards the government, but that won't change the situation because there's terror under left-wing governments, there's terror under right-wing governments. I don't think it's the construction of the current coalition that has a direct effect on different Palestinians who choose to or not to carry out attacks against Israelis. But indeed, as Jacob Lappin described earlier, we are in a prolonged wave of attacks and two deadly attacks in three days, just as another indication to the severity of the situation currently going on in the West Bank. I'd like to bring Jacob Lappin back into the discussion. And Jacob, we keep mentioning here that we are talking about arms, guns that before were rocks, now they're actually weapons that are being used to fatally injure someone. How can the Israeli military technically put a stop to the amount of these guns that are flowing through? We have been reporting in recent days that the IDF has been destroying explosive labs, but where are they getting these weapons from? And how can the IDF actually put a stop to it? So there are three primary sources for these firearms that are flooding the West Bank. One is cross-border smuggling from Jordan, and Israel has recently announced its intention to build a new border barrier between Israel and Jordan with the hope that that will severely dent this ongoing flow of firearms that's coming in from Jordan. Again, of course, the wishes of the Jordanian government and security forces, they themselves have no interest in seeing the West Bank flooded with guns, and they themselves are trying to stop this cross-border smuggling. And the IDF is trying to stop it with its own territorial battalions that are deployed along that border, but it's a long border. It's difficult terrain, and enough guns are getting through from Jordan to create a security problem. And some of that arms flow, by the way, could be linked to attempts by Hamas and Iran to use the Jordanian-Israeli border as an access point to destabilize the West Bank. Second source are those workshops. That's where these firearms that are known as Carl Gustav, semi-automatic guns, these are substandard firearms, but they are, of course, lethal when they work. And many of the terrorists that we've seen go on attacks have been using those. And a third source is, unfortunately, thefts that are occurring from IDF bases, particularly in the South, criminal elements, steal and raid arms stores in IDF bases, and then sell those guns on the black market to whoever wants to buy them. And that doesn't matter if it's organized crime or terrorist, they will sell those firearms. Of course, the IDF has been under immense pressure to crack down and stop those thefts, especially in southern Israel. So those are the main three sources, and it's going to require a major and coordinated effort by Israel and its Jordanian partners to put a dent in that source of firearms. Yakov Lapin, a military and strategic affairs analyst for the Jewish News Syndicate and the Miryam Institute. I want to thank you very much for your time this morning on this breaking news. And I'd like to quickly recap for our audience exactly what has happened with regards to this terror attack in the Southern West Bank. The IDF has put out a statement saying that following an initial report, shooting attack was carried out on a passing vehicle on Route 60 adjacent to the city of Hebron towards civilians who were driving in the area. Two of those civilians were injured. The injured woman was later declared dead. IDF soldiers are currently attending to the injured civilian at the scene, and soldiers are pursuing a manhunt. Stay with us, we'll be right back with more updates. Imagine being able to see into the future. We can take you there. Welcome to Israel Business Beats, your gateway to the captivating world of Israeli business and technology. Israel Business Beats, Sundays and Wednesdays, 9.30 p.m. GMT. Shalom and welcome to Jewish World Weekly. 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We do know that unfortunately, one of the victims has been pronounced dead, and we are getting word now from again, David Adolm, Israel's national emergency service, that a six-year-old was in the car with these two victims. How is this going to be playing into the hands of the politicians, the very politicians in Israel's far-right government who campaigned on making terror stop? Now we have seen it all weekend and for the past couple of weeks. Well, there is a lot of frustration with this. I mean, this is the dream team right-wing government that they ever thought of, you know, those who are living in Judea and Samaria, the settlers and everyone who is on the right and even the very right. So they expect the government to do more. And there's so much that you can do, especially with the salon wolves, as we call it. It's a matter of incitement. It's a matter of, you know, ferreting out very, very difficult situation. There may be a call now for a large operation, the style of defense shield, 21 years ago. But this is not the same situation as 21 years ago before. The second indicator, during the second indicator, Israel did not have any presence, security presence in these areas of the Palestinian Authority, which is not the case now. So a large-scale operation will not be useful as what we do now, which means preemptive and mostly through intelligence gathering. So it seems like this situation is continuing to go on. And especially as long as the Palestinian Authority continues its incitement, continues its encouragement by financing terrorists and their families. And when the Hamas and Islamic jihad are very much motivated to continue with its terror attacks and looms large over the entire situation, of course, is Iran, which is trying its best to disrupt the situation here. Now, Danny, we still don't know much as of now about the suspected attacker, in particular that a manhunt is underway. And we don't yet have any international reactions. But how could the United States be reacting to this, considering the fact that they seem to be butting heads with the Israeli government with regards to the situation in the West Bank, with settlement expansion, with more violence that we're seeing. And obviously now with Iran in the mix, Israel and the United States do not necessarily see eye-to-eye on the Iranian issue. And even so much so as the United States calling what happened a few weeks ago on the Israeli side, Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in a village in the West Bank, a terror attack. Are we expecting to see this kind of narrative coming out now? We're talking about a highway that was used by both Jews and Arabs in the region. This wasn't necessarily a matter of Jews going across into private Palestinian lands or into a Palestinian village. Yes, well, I would say that, you know, the Iranian nuclear risk and threat is the major one. But the critical issue now is the terror. So what the United States can do much more is more pressure on the Palestinian Authority because right now the Palestinian security forces are not very active, are not very, there could be much more done by them. At the same time, I believe there should be more pressure on Iran, not just on the nuclear file, but also with all their subversion in the region. And it's not just here, not just in Israel or the Palestinian Authority, it's also in Syria and in Iraq and Lebanon. We know that. And so long as there is no price tax on the Iranians, they have the free hand to continue. So I believe there should be some international condemnation and directing it to towards Tehran. And that could help a lot because if the Iranians continue their financing, their inspiration, their motivation, things can be much better here. And then I would just like to read out, we have just gotten a statement from the Maghen David Adom emergency services here in Israel for an update. And I also want to tell some of our viewers that this information is quite sensitive as well for those who need a view at discretion. But apparently according to Maghen David Adom when they arrived on the scene, the two victims, the woman was unconscious, not breathing and with no pulse, with severe gunshot injuries. They provided lifesaving treatment and resuscitation, but unfortunately following those attempts, they had to pronounce her deceased. However, with regards to the male victim, he was semi-conscious when they arrived with gunshot wounds. They immediately moved him along with the IDF team and evacuated him in serious condition to Soroka Hospital, which is around 30 minutes away. And we were hearing as well that he ended up having a serious condition, gunshot limb injuries. And so this is very difficult information for Israelis to be listening to in terms of the fact that it comes off the back of a very violent weekend. And again, this anger is going to be pointed toward the Israeli government. Is there a situation now where the opposition, Danny, is likely to band with some of the more far right or at least the right wing supporters in Israel in terms of their anger? Well, there is a consensus in Israel whether it's right or left position or coalition that terror should be fought relentlessly and of course without any, you know, intermittent activity has to be all the time they equate it to a lawn mowing. You know, you have to keep mowing the lawn and you never can get to the bottom of it because there are always more and more coming because of incitement or because of, again, monetary encroachment. So you have to keep doing that. In such a case, the opposition will land all the support and to the coalition, but not as much as joining the unity government because right now the rift is too deep between coalition and opposition. So the government is left here on its own, but we have very, very good robust security and intelligence teams. The IDF is very strong. Of course, you cannot prevent. It's not a foolproof operation, but certainly without the security presence of the Israeli IDF in the territories of the Palestinians, we would have had 10 times if not more events like that. So right now, it's just a matter of grit. It's biting the lips and continuing to do what we need to do. Danny, what about the international community? A lot of the times when terror incidents like this occur in the West Bank, the international media is very critical of them saying that this happens in area that is disputed land, that is not necessarily part of Israel nor part of a future Palestinian state. But what if this had to then spill over into the main parts of Israel into massive cities like Tel Aviv, like even the southern part of the country, the northern part of the country, is this because of the fact that it's contained within the West Bank, rather, that we are seeing such condemnation coming out of the international community? And if so, how can Israel change that narrative? Well, unfortunately, there is this thing. Terror is terror, terror, no matter what its motivation, especially when it's directed at civilians, at kids. I mean, this is just really morally reprehensible. The problem is, as you mentioned, that the distinction in the international community, not so much in the United States, but especially in Europe, is that terror in the West Bank, the Judean Samaria, is treated differently than when it is in Tel Aviv or other city or in Jerusalem. And more so, there is a distinction between terror in Israel and terror in Europe. And this is really a deplorable situation because by not condemning entire, you know, right out in a very strong way, this is just encouragement to terror, not just to kill Israelis here, but also to go after Europeans and others. Israel can do much more than it does. And quite frankly, the composition of this government is not helping Israel's PR or Israel's public diplomacy, especially as you have some ministers who are calling for almost a downright pogroms on Palestinian villages. So it's a very complex situation. I believe here, the key is for the, basically for the prime minister to put his house in order so that it will not be unwarranted the declarations by ministers. It has to be one position of the government and more and more pressure on Europeans to condemn it outright and also use our American friends and allies also to come to this aid and also pressure the Europeans to condemn. Daniela, on the former Israeli deputy foreign minister and former Israeli ambassador to the United States, thank you again very much for joining us on this breaking news edition. And still with me here in studios are Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran. Some of the international viewers that are watching right now explain exactly how the situation unfolds. When something like this happens, yes, it's imperative first and foremost that emergency services get to the scene. But in terms of what happens following the army, the security services, what then unfolds? How does the structure of command now with this manhunt ongoing, who exactly are the people involved? Right, so you have the local battalion, the local military, obviously with cooperation with the Shin Bet, because this is an ongoing incident since they have not apprehended the suspects. They, in cooperation, in tandem, they establish a cordon in the area, try, basically the main goal is to try and prevent the different escape routes of the suspect or suspects, trying to prevent them to enter major cities. That's why the entrances, the northern entrances to Hebron were closed. The Palestinians are reporting traffic jams in the area. Also, forces are already inside the city of Hebron, in case the suspects did manage to enter there. In addition, simultaneously, you have different, you also have aerial surveillance, you have drones and helicopters surveying the area, as well as different rings established along the area, first, second, and third perimeters to try and, first of all, stop the attackers and then bring them to justice in order and to try and prevent their killing in the process of bringing them in, because Israeli forces do indeed want to know where they got their weapons. For instance, as Yaakov Lapin said earlier, there are a bunch of different avenues in which they can procure these weapons, and so this is something that is very important for Israeli security forces to ascertain. But also the first and foremost is to, is to prevent also the next attack, because as long as they're on the run, the threshold, the possibility of a continuous attack is obviously on everyone's minds. Also, reprisal attacks, there is already calls from within the government for revenge, and this is also something that Israeli security forces will have to address, how to prevent the possibility of reprisal attacks by Israelis. Middle East correspondent Ariel Osirin, thank you very much for being here in studio to break down all the recent developments. And again, to recap the top-storing here in our breaking news story, as it continues to develop, the IDF is saying that following an initial report at about 10.18 a.m., a shooting attack was carried out at a passing vehicle on Route 60 in the Southern West Bank, adjacent to the city of Hevron, towards citizens who were driving in the area. Two civilians were injured. The injured woman was later declared dead at the scene. IDF soldiers and Magheden Davida dorm paramedics have been providing medical treatment to another injured civilian, a male who has been taken to the Soroka Medical Center 30 minutes away. We'll be back again...