This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.The 2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing[1] occurred on 30 April, in which an armed Israeli settler, Evyatar Borovsky, was stabbed, disarmed and then, according to some witnesses, shot with his own weapon at a bus stop in the northern West Bank by a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem.

[2][3][4] The perpetrator was identified as Salam As'ad Zaghal, who had recently been released from 3.5 years in jail for planting explosives.

[1][6] Salam had recently been released from an Israeli jail after serving a 42-month prison term for planting explosives along Israel's security barrier.

Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, took responsibility for the attack, reportedly describing it as revenge for the deaths of Palestinian men Afafat Jaradat and Maysara Abu Hamdiya while in Israeli custody.

The movement's spokesman Abu-Omar wrote on its website: "We welcome any act of resistance against this corrupt enemy ... [The stabbing is a] natural response to the occupation's aggression and its continuous attacks on all things Palestinian in the West Bank.

[14] In Umm al-Qutuf, three cars were set on fire and the local mosque was desecrated, in an apparent price tag attack for the Borovsky stabbing.

[19] The tires of three cars were punctured in Beitillu with graffiti reading, "revenge", and on a nearby wall, undersigned with "price tag" the words "regards from Baruch Tzuri to Eviatar", alluding to Evyatar Borovsky.