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Female assailant shot during suspected car-ramming attempt
[IsraelTimes] No Israelis seriously injured as Paleostinian teenager drives into bus stop at West Bank’s Etzion Junction.A Paleostinian teenager allegedly attempted to ram her car into a bus stop at the Etzion Junction in the central West Bank on Wednesday, prompting Israeli security forces to shoot and wound her, the army said. No Israelis were seriously injured in the incident, though a 28-year-old Israeli woman in "advanced stages of pregnancy" was taken to the hospital after experiencing a panic attack, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. The 16-year-old Paleostinian driver was critically injured from the crash and IDF gunfire, according to Arab media. She received medical treatment from the Israel Defense Forces and was taken to the hospital, MDA said. She was identified by Arabic media as Fatemah Taqatqa from Beit Fajjar, a Paleostinian town south of Bethlehem. The incident occurred shortly before 4:00 p.m. Surveillance footage from the scene, first posted on social media and later released by the IDF, showed the car veer across multiple lands of traffic and crash into the metal bollards surrounding the bus stop. According to the military, the teenager specifically targeted the troops stationed at the junction, but both soldiers and civilians could be seen standing at the bus stop. Local Bethlehem media reported that the driver’s cousin, Amjad Taqatqa, was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! shortly after the attack. The IDF could not immediately confirm the report. The Etzion Junction’s bus stop and hitchhiking post has been the scene of a number of terror attacks in late 2015 and early 2016, including both car-rammings and shootings. The busy junction sits at a major crossroads in the Etzion settlement bloc between Jerusalem and Hebron. The vehicular attacks forced the government to install metal poles around the junction’s bus stop in order to prevent attacks, which have waned over the past year. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-03-16 |
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