Hilltop Youth stole a Palestinian taxi that was left unattended outside an IDF base, before abandoning it at the side of the road, Israel's public broadcaster KAN News reported on Sunday.
The taxi was reportedly used in the terrorist stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank in July, killing one civilian.
The terrorists were neutralized at the scene.
The IDF is investigating why the taxi was left unattended outside the base following an investigation by Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) into how it was used to carry the two terrorists to the site of their terror attack last month.
Eyewitnesses said that the terrorists arrived in a stolen car at the shopping center and stabbed Shalev Zevuloni, a security guard, outside the Rami Levi supermarket. The assailants then snatched the guard’s handgun and exchanged fire with a soldier and an armed civilian before being killed.
Biden administration sanctioned Hilltop Youth
The United States imposed sanctions on the Hilltop Youth, an extremist movement of Jewish settlers known for establishing illegal outposts and attacking Palestinians in the West Bank, in October.