MDA paramedics quickly arrived at the scene and began resuscitation attempts together with IDF medics. They then evacuated the victims, both men in their 20s, to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tivkah in critical condition while continuing resuscitation techniques. Unfortunately, their deaths were determined shortly after they arrived at the hospital.

IDF forces launched a search for the terrorist.

The victims were later identified as Hillel Menachem, h’yd, and Yigal Yaakov Yaniv, h’yd, brothers who lived on the yishuv of Har Bracha. They were killed on their way from their home to the yeshivos they learned in.

Hillel, z’l, 22, was a hesder yeshivah student at a yeshivah in Kiryat Shemonah, and his brother Yigal, z’l, 20, was a hesder yeshivah student in Givat Olga. Hillel had finished his army service in the Air Force a week and a half before his death, and had just returned to his yeshivah.