A 40-year-old Israeli woman was murdered in a shooting attack on Monday morning near the city of Chevron and an Israeli man, 39, was seriously wounded.
The woman, later identified as Batsheva Nigri, H’yd, a mother of three from the yishuv of Beit Chagai, had gotten a ride together with her 12-year-old daughter from her neighbor on the yishuv. The attack occurred at about 10:15 a.m. as they were driving on Route 60. The terrorists used their vehicle to cut their car off at an intersection and then opened fire, shooting at least 22 bullets from a submachine gun at the front seat from close range. They then fled the scene. The 12-year-old daughter sitting in the back seat was miraculously uninjured but witnessed her mother being shot to death in cold blood.
MDA paramedics and IDF medics provided emergency medical aid to the victims at the scene, carrying out resuscitation techniques on the woman, who was critically injured. Sadly, they were forced to pronounce her death shortly later. The male driver was seriously wounded and evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva.
A large number of Israeli security forces launched a manhunt for the terrorists, who are believed to have fled into the city of Chevron.
The Efrat Regional Council issued a statement mourning the “murder of Batsheva Nigri, H’yd, of the Ravid family from Efrat. Batsheva grew up in Efrat. She’s the mother of three daughters and was a known preschool teacher (gannenet) who was beloved by both children and parents.”
The nifteres worked in Efrat as a gannenet and was on the way to Efrat to organize her classroom for the first day of school. A friend of the family told Ynet, “She was a woman with a heart of gold, loving and giving to the children. She had the biggest heart you could ask for. It’s a terrible loss and a very difficult day for us.”
The injured man was later identified as Aryeh Gottlieb, a father of six who was on the way to buy schoolbooks for his children when the attack occurred. The public is asked to daven for the refuah sheleimah of Aryeh Leib ben Ella b’toch sha’ar cholei Yisrael.
The murderous attack comes only two days after an Israeli father and son were murdered in Huwara, with the manhunt for the terrorists still ongoing.
Pure evil. Palestinians in Gaza already handing out candy, after an Israeli Jewish mother executed in front of her daughter in Hebron drive-by terror shooting! pic.twitter.com/YGn9CC0mMO
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) August 21, 2023
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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the Israeli government and the IDF commanders are to be blamed for all of what is going on. They are using old methods to stop terror which are worthless.
We need COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT on villages that produce and support terrorists.
Is this on the BBC and CNN? Imagine if the IDF mistakenly killed a 40 year old Arab mother of 3, the story would be all over the place and the discussion would be about how Israelis love killing young mothers. Here when the opposite is true as this was done purposely, there is silence. The antisemitism is so blatant and obviously orchestrated from Above.
Israel should be condemned at the Security Council for this! The Hague is on Summer recess but this Israeli atrocity upon innocent poor Palestinians will be handled by the international Court as soon as they convene. Meanwhile President Biden has called Netanyahu and admonished him for this heinous crime perpetrated by…..
I hear it coming!
I bless the IDF ….I put the excess of this on the Arabs, the Muslims and more so on America…Biden Administration….not being an American…..I do sense America is a big factor….loathe this country America..
They should have kicked out all the Palestinians when they took back Jerusalem, since that was never done there isn’t really anything that can actually stop these terrorist attacks besides davening to Hashem. Collective punishment will never work since the goyim will just call Israel Apartheid and racist and cause more sina yisroel.
tzedikis:
The savages that murdered this woman are of course the ones at fault for that murder.
But this general mess, of course, is the fault of the Zionists, not any other country.
The Zionists invaded the area against the will of the Jews there, and then, after making the cataclysmic mess there, are the ones who entice people to “settle” the land in the interest of the idol of Zionism – all so that the Zionists can anyways uproot them when political circumstances dictate that, as they’ve done in Gush Katif, Gaza, Yamit, et al.
It’s Elul! The message is for those whose spiritual antennae are able to discern it. Of course, the perpetrators will pay the price, if not in This World then in the Next, but the decree is from Hashem. We are meant to sit up and shape up.
Stop focusing on the savages and the Zionists – it’s WE who Hashem is talking to – אין מזרזים אלא למזורזים. If we do what we are supposed to, we will generate forces of kedusha that will affect those who are not spiritually attuned to getting messages so that they, too, will grow receptors…
כתיבה וחתימה טובה to all of Klal Yisrael.