This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.The 2019 Samaria combined attack was a Palestinian stabbing and shooting attack, which was carried out at the Ariel junction and Giti Avishar junction in the Samaria region in the West Bank on March 17, 2019.
On March 18, a day after the attack, Rabbi Achiad Ettinger, one of the victims who was head of the Oz and Emuna Yeshiva in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood in Tel Aviv, died of his injury.
[citation needed] The militant then drove towards the Palestinian town of Burukin, where he abandoned the vehicle and continued escaping on foot.
[citation needed] On March 18, a day after the attack, Rabbi Achiad Ettinger, who was head of the Oz and Emuna Yeshiva in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood in Tel Aviv, died of his injury.
[2] The militant who carried out the attack was Omar Abu Lilah, a 19 year old Palestinian from the village of Zawiya located near Ariel.