Israeli couple slain in shooting attack.

The couple murdered in the terrorist shooting attack on the Hebron-Beersheba road near Eshkolot in the south Hebron Hills and close to the Green Line on Friday night are Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife Rima Noviko, 25, residents of the Shani Livne community.

Both the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Fatah’s Al-Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades have claimed responsibility for the attack. The PFLP said it is in response to Zionist massacres and attacks will continue.

The two were on their way to Ashdod when gunmen ambushed their car, spraying it with bullets and killing them both instantly. A resident from Meitar alerted security forces after he spotted the car with its windows smashed at the side of the road, and a Magen David Adom team that reached the site after receiving a report of the shooting at 8.24pm was forced to pronounce them dead. Security forces that reached the site combed the area for the perpetrators. Dozens of bullets from Kalashnikov rifles riddled the car.