2023 Eli shooting

[1] On 19 June 2023, Israeli forces entered the Jenin refugee camp in order to arrest two suspects.

[2][3] Politicians from across the Israeli political spectrum, including Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid and the National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz condemned the shooting as a murderous terrorist attack and offered condolences to the victims.

[2] The Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist militant organisation Hamas identified the two gunmen as their members, and praised the shooting as a proper response to the recent Jenin incursion.

[1] In response to the shooting, on 21 June 2023, hundreds of Israeli settlers set fire to 60 vehicles and 30 houses in Turmus Ayya, a Palestinian town in the West Bank.

[4][1][5] Far-right activists from the settlement of Yitzhar told the public broadcaster Kan that they had cut off electricity to the village of Urif as retaliation for the attack in Eli.