By Pesach Benson • June 7, 2026
Jerusalem, 7 June, 2026 (TPS-IL) — A 35-year-old man was killed and five other civilians were wounded Sunday morning in a terrorist shooting attack spanning several communities in Israel’s central region, prompting a major security operation and lockdown orders for residents.
Israeli security officials said one of the terrorists, an Israeli-Arab resident of Tayibe, an Arab city in central Israel, was “neutralized” after being shot by security forces. Authorities continued a manhunt for a second terrorist believed to have participated in the attack.
The attack began at a gas station in Kochav Yair, where two men were wounded. Additional victims were found at the entrance to the nearby community of Tzur Yitzhak and along Route 5533 near Tzur Natan. A police position at Moshav Salait in western Samaria also came under fire.
Residents of Tzur Natan were instructed to lock themselves in their homes as security forces searched for the second terrorist.
“I heard shots and recognized them as submachine gun shots… I stuck my head out the window and started seeing ambulances and complete chaos. I called Kochav Yair and they said there was chaos there too,” Moshe, a Tzur Yitzhak resident for 40 years, told The Press Service of Israel.
Magen David Adom paramedic and Kfar Saba station chief Lior Zilberberg said medics were conducting an exercise in the area when they first learned of the attack.
“We immediately stopped the exercise and left with intensive care vehicles and ambulances,” he said.
“At the gas station, MDA medics and paramedics provided medical treatment to two wounded people who were evacuated to the hospital in serious and moderate condition. At the entrance to Tzur Yitzhak we saw two wounded people, a 30-year-old man who suffered a gunshot wound to his hand and a 61-year-old woman who was in the vehicle and was wounded by gunfire in her upper body. We provided medical treatment to both of them and they were evacuated to the hospital in an MDA intensive care unit in moderate condition,” Zilberberg recalled.
“I continued driving towards Tzur Natan where we reported active shooting. during the drive, civilians signaled me to stop and called me to provide medical treatment to a wounded man who was unconscious inside a vehicle. He was pulseless and not breathing with gunshot wounds to his body, and after medical examinations we were forced to declare him dead,” he added. “Another wounded man was lying next to the vehicle, conscious and suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper body. After initial medical treatment in the field, he was evacuated to the hospital in an intensive care unit in moderate-serious condition.”
No injuries were reported at Moshav Salait.
One terrorist, identified as an Israeli-Arab from Tayibe, was neutralized near Tzur Yitzhak, where security forces reportedly recovered weapons from his vehicle.
“I don’t feel afraid because this is the first incident in the last 40 years, fortunately,” Moshe told TPS-IL. “But I don’t feel afraid because I have a lot of Arab friends from Taiba, I celebrate the holidays and Eid al-Adha with them, they come to my house, I have an Arab neighbor and they are all nice and good. I didn’t expect such an event to happen here.”
