Three Charged Over the Tzur Yitzhak Attack That Killed Haim Klomiti

Prosecutors filed indictments at the Lod District Court against three men accused of helping the gunman who attacked the central Israeli community of Tzur Yitzhak on 7 June 2026, according to the Israel Police statement announcing the end of the investigation. The case was built by the Sharon District Police together with the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, and the charges were brought by the Central District Attorney's Office.

In the attack, the statement said, Haim Klomiti, a member of the emergency response team of the nearby community of Zur Natan, was murdered and several other civilians were injured. The attacker, named by police as Omar Munder, was neutralised by officers from the Tayibe station after a short pursuit. Arrested afterwards were Ala'a El-Din Jaheim and Wiam Matarouh, Israeli citizens living in Tayibe, and Muhammad Aptima, a resident of Baqa al-Gharbiyya. Police said the investigation found that Jaheim and Matarouh had known of the attacker's intention to carry out an attack and had not prevented it, and that Aptima had supplied the Carlo weapon used in the shooting. Investigators also said they had established further detail about how the attacker behaved in the days before the attack.

Tzur Yitzhak is a community settlement of about 7,800 people in central Israel, under the Drom HaSharon Regional Council and next to Tzur Natan and the town of Kokhav Ya'ir, Wikipedia records. Tayibe and Baqa al-Gharbiyya are Arab cities in the same part of the country; The Times of Israel, reporting the indictments on 2 July 2026, identified the three defendants as Arab citizens of Israel.

What a Carlo is, and why it keeps appearing in Israeli cases

The Carlo is not a factory weapon. It is a crude copy of the Swedish Carl Gustaf M/45 submachine gun of the 1940s, assembled in workshops from tube, sheet metal and salvaged parts; barrels have been improvised from water pipe and even from parts of domestic appliances, The Jerusalem Post reported in September 2025. The guns jam, and they are wildly inaccurate.

What they are is cheap and replaceable. When The Times of Israel examined the weapon in 2016, a basic smoothbore version cost around NIS 3,000 while a genuine M-16 fetched NIS 60,000 to NIS 80,000 on the West Bank black market. A drill press, a welder and a downloaded blueprint are close to the whole production line, which is why seizures rarely dent supply. The same weapon circulates among criminal gangs as well as attackers.

The volunteer squads that meet an attack first

The man killed belonged to his community's emergency response team: in Hebrew a kitat konenut, a squad of local volunteers, usually former soldiers, kept armed and on call to hold off an attack until police or the army arrive. The Media Line, profiling one such squad in the north in July 2024, described members ranging in age from 23 to 67 who patrol at dawn in body armour and who, since Hezbollah began shelling the area in October 2023, have taken their orders from the IDF while continuing to work for their local council. The Times of Israel reported on the day of the June attack that the man killed was a member of his community's civil defence squad.

What is still unclear

The police statement did not list the specific offences on the charge sheet, or say what sentences prosecutors would seek. It did not say whether the three men have entered pleas, or whether any of them disputes the account investigators gave. Nor did it explain how the Carlo reached the attacker, how long before the attack it changed hands, or what the further findings about his conduct in the preceding days actually were.