2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing

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2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing
Tapuah
Location	Tapuah Junction, Road 60, West Bank
Coordinates	32°06′55″N 35°15′26″E / 32.11528°N 35.25722°E / 32.11528; 35.25722
Date	30 April 2013
Attack type	stabbing
Deaths	1 Israeli civilian
Injured	1 (perpetrator)
Perpetrators	Salam As’ad Zaghal (according to Palestinian groups and media reports)

The 2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing^[1] occurred on 30 April, in which an armed Israeli settler, Evyatar Borovsky, was stabbed, disarmed and then, according to some witnesses, shot with his own weapon at a bus stop in the northern West Bank by a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem. The Israeli police described the attacker as a "Palestinian terrorist".^[2][3][4] The perpetrator was identified as Salam As'ad Zaghal, who had recently been released from 3.5 years in jail for planting explosives.^[5] The stabbing was praised by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, its military wing, and its Islamist offshoot the Palestinian Mujahideen movement, and by Zaghal's family.^[6] Jewish settlers in the West Bank waged a series of violent reprisal attacks against Palestinian targets in the West Bank, and an Israeli outpost was later named in the victim's honor.