This was the second time in recent weeks, during an upsurge in Palestinian terror attacks, that a family lost two sons.
By Pesach Benson, TPS and World Israel News Staff
The two Israelis murdered in a Palestinian terror attack on Sunday were identified as Hillel Menachem Yaniv, 22, and his 20-year-old brother, Yigal Yaakov Yaniv.
The attack took place in the Palestinian village of Huwara, south of Shechem (Nablus) in Samaria, when their car was rammed by Palestinians, forcing it to the side of the road. The brothers were then shot to death at point blank range.
The victims were from the nearby community of Har Bracha.
The Israeli Defense Forces launched a manhunt for the terrorists.
Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich said he happened to drive past the location of the murder several minutes before the shooting.
“My heart is torn with sorrow for the brutal murder of the brothers Hillel and Yigal Yaniv from the settlement of Har Bracha in the terrorist attack in Huwara. I myself passed there a few minutes before the attack, and every day many thousands of Jews pass there on the road. Every Jew is a target for those bloodthirsty terrorists,” he said.
Smotrich echoed calls for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recall an Israeli delegation from a security summit in Jordan. The meeting is taking place in the Jordanian city of Aqaba, with the participation of officials from the Palestinian Authority, US, Egypt and Jordan. The Israeli delegation is being led by National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Ronen Bar.
“I call on the Prime Minister to return the Israeli delegation from Aqaba immediately,” Smotrich said.
“‘Calm’ will only be achieved when the IDF hits the cities of terror and its perpetrators mercilessly, with tanks and helicopters, in such a way that it will broadcast that the owner of the house has gone mad and will take away their desire to harm us. We will demand an immediate meeting of the cabinet to make decisions,” he said.
This was the second time in recent weeks, during an upsurge in Palestinian terror attacks, that a family lost two sons.
Eight-year-old Asher Paley and his six-year-old brother Yaakov were murdered along with newly-wed chassid Shlomo Alter Lederman by a terrorist who rammed into a bus stop in Jerusalem on February 10th. Another brother was lightly injured; their father was seriously hurt in the attack and remains in hospital.
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