Sergeant Elad Yaakov Winklestein has been named as the man who was murdered in a terrorist shooting attack in Samaria this morning (Monday), it was cleared for publication this afternoon. He was an investigator at the police station in Ariel and a father of two.
Later, it was cleared for publication that Rachel Cohen and Aliza Rize were the other two people who were mudered in the attack. Cohen, 73, was an educational guidance counselor and the mother of five daughters. Rize, whose surprise 70th birthday party was planned for next week, was also a guidance counselor and one of the founders of Kedumim. The two women were close friends.
MDA EMT Zur Goldenberg, who was the first to arrive at the scene of the attack, stated, "I was driving the ambulance in Wadi Qana, very close to the location, and arrived at the scene of the attack within two minutes. I saw military forces at the site and noticed two private vehicles with two women inside who had been shot and were unconscious. In another vehicle, there was an unconscious man, and nearby was a bus with shattered windows from gunfire. Together with the EMT who was with me, we began triaging the injured, and large MDA forces arrived at the scene."
United Hatzalah EMTs Haim Kreif and Daniel Eshel reported from the scene, "Tragically, two women in their 60s and a man around 40 years old, who were in the vehicles struck by gunfire, were pronounced dead at the scene. Additionally, with assistance from United Hatzalah ambulance teams and medics from nearby towns, we provided initial medical treatment to seven passengers from a bus that was also hit in the attack."
Security forces are continuing to hunt for the shooters and say that there were three terrorist involved in the attack.