The Samaria IDF court on Wednesday indicted Palestinian Salam Zagal for the murder of an Israeli settler stabbed to death at the Tapuah Junction in late April.
The victim, Evyatar Borovsky of Yitzhar, left behind a wife and five children.
Zagal stands accused of going to the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank on the morning of April 30th armed with a knife and mortally stabbing Borovsky as he waited for a ride. The indictment says Zagal then grabbed Borovsky's pistol and tried to flee the scene, while firing off shots at Border Police officers closing in on him. Zagal was shot and moderately wounded before he was arrested at the scene.
Zagal hails from the village of Shuka near Tul Karm in the West Bank, and was released only seven months ago from a jail sentence for rock-throwing. Zagal's brother is serving a sentence in a Palestinian Authority prison for allegedly collaborating with Israel, and it is suspected that Zagal stabbed Borovsky in order to return “honor” to the family name.
Borovsky's murder was met with rioting and acts of violence by settlers towards Palestinians in the West Bank, and his name has been spray-painted in a number of “price tag” attacks since the murder.