2022 Ariel attack

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.On 15 November 2022, a Palestinian killed three Israelis near the Ariel settlement in the West Bank.

On 15 November 2022, a vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack killed three Israelis and wounded three others in the West Bank settlement of Ariel.

The killer was shot dead by civilians and security forces,[2][3][4] at around 9:48 AM local time, twenty minutes after the attack had started.

[6] US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides tweeted "Horrified by the rampage of one terrorist today in Ariel that left three Israelis dead, and as many wounded" while EU envoy Dimiter Tzantchev denounced the "despicable ramming and stabbing attack".

[7] Hamas lauded the attack as "heroic ... [and] a natural response to the escalating crimes of the occupation against the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque and its shedding of our people's blood.