Sharon Teen Shot And Killed In Attack In West Bank

An American teenager was killed during an attack in the West Bank Thursday that killed three people.

The head of the school, Naty Katz, said Schwartz was studying in Israel.

Ezra Schwartz, 18, of Sharon, MA, was one of three people killed when reportedly a Palestinian terrorist shot into a minivan full of people.

The second attack, which killed Schwartz, was a shooting in the West Bank in Gush Etzion, an area south of Jerusalem. The Telegraph reports Israeli PM Benjamin Nethanyahu saying it’s “blindness and hypocrisy” that stops people from condemning attacks as vehemently as the Paris Terrorist Attacks were denounced.

Schwartz was on his way back from handing out food to soldiers when he was shot, according to a statement from Camp Yavneh, where Schwartz was a former camper and counselor.

According to the Israeli newspaper HaAretz, Schwartz had been studying at a yeshiva, or a Jewish religious academy, outside of Jerusalem during a post-high school gap year. The driver of the Israeli auto was wounded in that attack.

The U.S. Department of State said it extended its condolences to his family and friends. She said he was a Palestinian father of five from the West Bank village Dura, near Hebron, a frequent flashpoint for violence.

The damaged cars were a result of the attack, in which police said a drive-by shooter opened fire on pedestrians and other vehicles. A Palestinian man allegedly stabbed the men in a Judaica store in Tel Aviv’s Panorama building that was being used as an improvised synagogue for afternoon prayers when the attacker tried to force his way inside, according to the consulate general’s announcement. You will be thought of and missed immensely every day in the hearts of your Ashreinu family and in the hearts of Israel.

Israeli borderguards stand guard at the site of the attack.

The suspect was identified by Palestinian media as a West Bank man named Mohammed Abdel Basset al-Kharoub.