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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) \u2014 A Palestinian man with Israeli citizenship went on a shooting rampage in several towns in central Israel on Sunday, killing a reservist and wounding five other people, according to Israeli police and the military. The attacker was killed by police.<\/p>\n

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The attack came at a time of heightened tensions following a spate of Israeli settler attacks, and the deadly shooting of a Palestinian baby over the weekend, in the nearby West Bank. Police identified the attacker as a resident of the Arab town of Taybeh in his 20s, but his precise motives weren’t immediately known.<\/p>\n

The attack began with a shooting Sunday morning at a gas station near the town of Kokhav Yair, located on the Israeli side of the boundary with the occupied West Bank. Several other shootings were reported in two nearby Israeli towns and close to the Israeli settlement of Salit, inside the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Police initially feared a series of coordinated attacks, but eventually determined that a gunman and an accomplice who may have served as his driver were involved. The suspected accomplice was arrested later after he tried to stab police with a glass bottle.<\/p>\n

Israel’s military said that a 55-year-old reservist was killed near Tzur Natan. The Magen David Adom rescue service said that five other people were wounded, two severely.<\/p>\n

Fears of a widespread attack prompted authorities to order residents to stay at home, and children in the area were kept in lockdown at school for at least three hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince Oct. 7, the scenario we were expecting was terrorists crossing into our towns from over the boundary. I don\u2019t think that anyone imagined that we would discover the attackers were Israeli citizens,\u201d Oshrit Gani Gonen, the regional council head, told Israeli media, referring to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Security minister posts video reportedly with dead gunman<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the security forces who killed the attacker, while Israel\u2019s hard-line public security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the police force, released a video of himself standing next to what appeared to be a blurred image of the dead gunman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the end of every terrorist, this is how it should look,\u201d said Ben-Gvir, who recently led an effort to pass a new law that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinian attackers. That law faces legal challenges.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir has come under sharp condemnation from other Israeli leaders for making contentious videos, such as his treatment of flotilla activists who were detained after attempting to break the maritime blockade to Gaza.<\/p>\n

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The West Bank has experienced a surge in deadly violence since the war in Gaza began. Israel has stepped up military operations across the territory, killing hundreds of people. It says raids are aimed at militants, but scores of civilians have also been killed.<\/p>\n

The Oct. 7 attack killed around 1,200 people and took 251 as hostages. Israel\u2019s ensuing offensive in Gaza has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, including combatants and civilians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It doesn’t give a breakdown of civilians and militants.<\/p>\n

Israeli strikes kill 9 in Gaza<\/p>\n

Also on Sunday, at least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a police point in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. The dead were taken to a field hospital run by the Red Crescent. At least 10 others were wounded, the charity said.<\/p>\n

An Israeli strike later in the day killed at least four Palestinians when it hit a vehicle in the western part of Gaza City, according to Shifa hospital, which received the casualties.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military didn’t immediately comment on either strike, but has said in the past that it would target militants that pose a threat to its troops. While the heaviest fighting has subsided since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal last October, the ceasefire has seen almost daily Israeli fire.<\/p>\n

Israel later closed the crossings with Gaza until further notice due to the deteriorating security situation, according to the defense body that oversees humanitarian aid in Gaza, which issued the statement after Iran launched missiles at Israel.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu, in a Cabinet meeting, repeated his pledge to take 70% of Gaza: \u201cWe are presently holding more than 60% of the territory, and soon we will reach 70%.\u201d He said that Israel isn’t allowing Hamas to \u201crearm or harm us,\u201d in comments released to the media.<\/p>\n

The head of the U.S.-created Board of Peace that oversees the ceasefire acknowledged last month that next steps in the truce have stalled over the key issue of disarming Hamas.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Samy Magdy contributed to this report from Cairo.<\/p>\n

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A previous version of this story was corrected to show that the location where the Israeli man was killed was on the Israeli side of the boundary with the Israel-occupied West Bank, not inside the West Bank.<\/p>\n

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