
Pregnant Israeli woman killed in West Bank shooting attack
created: May 15, 2025, 7:55 a.m. | updated: May 16, 2025, 11:06 p.m.
Pregnant Israeli woman killed in West Bank shooting attackMagen David Adom paramedics treated Tzeela Gez and her husband at the scene of the attackThe Israeli military said its forces were pursuing the gunman.
A pregnant Israeli woman has been shot and killed in what Israeli authorities say was a terrorist attack in the north of the occupied West Bank.
'I was afraid for my life': At the scene of the attack on Palestinian Oscar winnerIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was "deeply shocked by the horrific attack in [the northern West Bank] against a pregnant woman and her husband, while they were making their way to the delivery room".
There was no immediate claim from any Palestinian armed groups, but Hamas praised the attack as a "heroic" response to Israel's "escalating crimes and ongoing aggression against our people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank".
Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war.
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