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| Troops thwart attempted car-ramming in West Bank |
| 2016-02-20 |
| [IsraelTimes] Security forces kill driver as he heads directly for them; no Israelis injured in incident A Paleostinian man was killed Friday afternoon as he tried to carry out a car-ramming attack against Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank. The troops spotted the driver as he directed his vehicle at them during riots in the town of Silwad, the Ynet news website reported. They opened fire on the man and killed him, Army Radio said. There were no Israelis maimed in the attempted attack. The attempted attack occurred at the British Police Junction, at the entrance to the village near Ramallah, the radio said. "During a violent riot in Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, an assailant attempted to ram his vehicle into soldiers," the army said in a statement. "The soldiers responded to the immediate threat and fired towards the assailant, resulting in his death." Paleostinian police sources identified the man as Raed Hamed, 20. His body was later handed over to the Paleostinian Authority, the Walla website said. The attempted attack came hours after two Border Police officers and a bystander were maimed in a stabbing at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on Friday morning. One officer was stabbed in the upper body and moderately hurt. The other was stabbed in the arm and was in light condition. Both officers, in their early 20s, were taken to Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center. According to the Magen David Adom ambulance service, the bystander, identified as a 50-year-old Paleostinian woman from East Jerusalem, was hit in the leg by fragments or ricochets from the shots fired at the assailant by security forces. She was lightly hurt. After being treated on the scene by medics, she was taken to an East Jerusalem hospital. Later on Friday, two Paleostinian protesters were maimed by IDF fire during festivities near the northern Gazoo Strip, Paleostinian media reported. According to the Walla News, Israeli soldiers opened fire on the protesters adjacent to the Erez border crossing after dozens approached the border fence and began hurling rocks at army patrols. In similar demonstrations further south along the border fence, protesters inside the Paleostinian territory hurled rocks and rolled burning tires at IDF soldiers near the al-Bureij refugee camp and in the Nahal Oz area. Palestinian dies of wounds from West Bank clash with IDF [IsraelTimes] Army says troops open fire on 21-year-old as he shoots at them during protests in Beit Fajjar A Paleostinian man died Friday afternoon of wounds he sustained during a clash with IDF troops in the West Bank earlier in the day. The man died at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, where he had been taken after the incident in the town of Beit Fajjar, between Bethlehem and Hebron, the Walla news website said. The IDF said that he and another protester had been shot after opening fire at troops on the scene. The second protester was lightly hurt. The Paleostinian Authority's Health Ministry named the man as Khaled Taqatqa, aged 21. |
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