Terror attack in Jordan Valley leaves two cops dead

March 16, 2009

In the last two weeks, two terror attacks have created an eerie reflection in Israel. After each attack, every Israeli wonders if this will be the one to set off the next intifada (uprising). Two weeks ago, a bulldozer driver went after a police car in Jerusalem. he was shot dead before he did any damage.

The story ended differently Sunday night. Last night two Israeli policemen were shot and killed in the West Bank, the first Israeli deaths in that area in nearly a year, on a road that both Israelis and Palestinians frequent Highway 90 is used by Israelis as well as Palestinians to cut through to the Sea of Galilee in the North and the Dead Sea in the South.

The police officers were shot a close range in the valley between Jericho and Jordan.

Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said that the two officers were on patrol near the Jewish town of Massua. The small Jewish community is in an agricultural area of the Jordan Valley, north of Jericho and near the Jordanian border.

Police are searching for the killers. The last Israeli deaths in the West Bank occurred on April 25 last year, when two security guards at an industrial park near the city of Tulkarm were shot dead.