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Soldier killed, 5 wounded, in attack by gunmen at West Bank checkpoint near Jerusalem

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Terrorists killed after opening fire at ‘tunnels’ checkpoint on Route 60; police: Axes, guns, ammo, IDF uniform found in their car; police chief: They planned large-scale ‘massacre’

An IDF soldier was killed and five were wounded shooting attack by Palestinian terrorists targeting the “tunnels” checkpoint on the West Bank’s Route 60, south of Jerusalem, police and medics said Thursday. Police said the three gunmen had planned to carry out a much larger massacre, in Jerusalem.

Cpl. Avraham Fetena, 20, a Military Police soldier from Haifa was critically wounded in the attack and later succumbed to his wounds at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, the army said.

One of the victims of the attack said all the doors of a white Skoda opened at once, with each gunman shooting in a different direction, and security forces quickly returning fire.

Police said the car in which the terrorists arrived had false license plates, and identified two of them as Palestinians from the Hebron area. The Shin Bet security agency later named the two as Hamas member Abdelqader Qawasmeh, 26, and 28-year-old Hassan Qafisha, who is affiliated with Hamas and whose father was the head of the terror group’s military arm in Hebron until he was killed in 2003. The Shin Bet said it was still verifying the identity of the third gunman, but Palestinian media identified him as Nasser Kawasmeh. Hebrew media reports later said he too was affiliated with Hamas.

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