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A large IDF force was dispatched to search the area for the suspected attackers. Roadblocks were set up in the Jordan Valley.

Retired IDF Colonel killed by Palestinians in the Jordan Valley

A retired Israel Defense Forces (IDF) colonel, Seraya Opher, was killed by two Palestinians in a terrorist attack outside a home in the West Bank overnight Thursday.
The man’s girlfriend managed to run out of the house, located in the village of Brosh HaBika, in the Jordan Valley, and escape the perpetrators.
The couple reportedly heard noises outside the house, and when the victim went out to investigate, he was attacked by men wielding axes and crowbars.
The woman sustained light to moderate injuries while fleeing the scene. She was taken to the HaEmek Medical Center in Afula.
A large IDF force was dispatched to search the area for the suspected attackers. Roadblocks were set up in the Jordan Valley as well. Press reports said security forces arrested five Palestinian men on suspicion of carrying out the brutal attack.
There has been an uptick in the number of terror attacks against Israelis in the West Bank over the last several weeks.
Last Monday, two Palestinian men were arrested in connection to an October 5 terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Psagot. In that attack, a gunman infiltrated the settlement and shot 9-year-old girl Noam Glik. She was lightly wounded.
In September, two IDF soldiers were killed in separate incidents. One soldier, Tomer Hazan, was murdered by a Palestinian coworker who lured him to a village near Qalqilya. A second soldier, Gabriel Kobi, was killed by what the army said was a sniper shot outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

EJP