Israeli soldiers deploy following a reported attack at the entrance of the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank on Jerusalem's outskirts on October 19, 2022. (Credit: AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian gunman wanted by Israel for a lethal Oct. 8 attack at a Jerusalem checkpoint was killed Wednesday while carrying out another shooting outside a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities said.
Guards at the entrance to Maale Adumim — one of whom was wounded in the incident — fired back at the gunman, killing him, police said.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid identified the gunman as responsible for the death of a soldier and the wounding of three others in the earlier attack at a checkpoint near Shuafat, a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
There was no immediate comment from Palestinian authorities on the incident.
Following the Oct. 8 attack, police blockaded Shuafatfor days as they searched for the gunman, setting off violent protests in a community that Israel counts as part of its Jerusalem municipality but where residents complain of overcrowding and systematic neglect.
Tensions have deepened since Israeli forces began a crackdown in the West Bank in late March following a series of street attacks by Palestinians in Israel that killed 19 people. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed this year, most since the army launched its operation.
Writing by Dan Williams.
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