Approximately 100 people, including many children and teenage girls, had joined the hike to visit springs and scenic areas near the village.By Kostis Konstantinou, TPSA young Israeli man was murdered, and two others were wounded in a terrorist attack near the Gilad Farm outpost in northern Samaria on Friday morning, Israeli authorities said.According to the Israel Defense Forces, Israeli civilians hiking near the Palestinian village of Tell, southwest of Nablus, were initially assaulted by Palestinians.The assailants subsequently seized a weapon from a security officer who arrived at the scene and opened fire on the Israelis.Magen David Adom paramedics pronounced a man in his 30s dead at the scene.Two other Israelis suffering from gunshot wounds were evacuated by helicopter in cooperation with an IDF medical team.One, aged about 20, was listed in serious condition, while the second, approximately 25, was moderately wounded.The IDF said additional forces had been deployed to the area and were pursuing the assailants.Troops established roadblocks and imposed a security cordon around Nablus and the nearby village of Tell.IDF forces at the scene of a terror attack in northern Samaria, which left one Israeli dead and several others wounded. (IDF)Eyewitnesses told TPS-IL that approximately 100 people, including many children and teenage girls, had joined the hike to visit springs and scenic areas near the village.They said the group first encountered several armed Palestinians carrying clubs near one of the springs, but that confrontation ended after shots were fired into the air.As the hikers continued around the other side of the village, however, a much larger group of Palestinians allegedly approached from several directions, surrounded them, and unleashed a barrage of stones.Several girls became trapped in the crowd and had to be pulled to safety, according to one witness.The eyewitness said Israeli troops and civilian security personnel had arrived by the time the second confrontation escalated.During the ensuing clashes, one of the assailants allegedly seized a rifle from a wounded civilian security officer, opened fire on the Israelis and fled.“They definitely took his long gun and shot three people there. One of them was killed,” the witness told TPS-IL.He added that the large number of children, combined with the hikers being spread out along the route, created confusion and made it particularly difficult to evacuate the group once the stone-throwing began.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he would shortly convene Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir to discuss Israel’s response.“We will act forcefully against the terrorists and those who sent them, and we will not allow terrorism in Judea and Samaria to raise its head,” Netanyahu said.A while ago it was announced that the Chief of the General Staff held a situational assessment following the attack with the Commander of the Central Command and the Head of the Operations Directorate.During the assessment, the Chief of the General Staff ordered a significant reinforcement of forces to bolster defense in the area and directed that all terrorists involved in the incident be apprehended.IDF forces continue to operate to thwart terrorism in the Samaria region, including in the villages of Beit Furik and Tubas, where extensive operational activity began last night, an IDF statement said.The post Israeli hiker murdered, two others wounded in Samaria terror attack appeared first on World Israel News.