Around noon, a Palestinian militant entered the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin, located between Jerusalem and Hebron, unhindered.

[5] Although most Israeli settlements are surrounded by security fences, Bat Ayin residents had refused to build one, saying it would be a sign of weakness.

[1][2] Emergency rescue workers from Magen David Adom who arrived at the scene stated that Nativ had managed to get to his home located right across the street, leaving behind a trail of blood, but died of his injuries despite his brother's attempts to resuscitate him.

[4] 45-year-old resident Avinoam Maymon,[7] a passerby who saw the assailant running after the younger boy,[8] managed to forcibly remove the weapon from his hand while he tried to stab him.

[8] The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah political party, also claimed responsibility for the attack.

"[12] A previously unknown Palestinian militant group calling itself "the Palestine Strugglers Army" also claimed to have orchestrated the attack.

[4] On the evening of 14 April, Israeli security forces captured the perpetrator Moussa Tayet, a 26-year-old Palestinian resident of Khirbet Safa, after receiving information he was hiding in Beit Ummar, located south of Bethlehem.