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| Palestinian opens fire on troops in drive-by attack, is shot; earlier car rammer hits bollard, is shot dead | |||
| 2017-01-26 | |||
A Paleostinian man shot up Israeli troops from a moving car in the central West Bank on Wednesday night, the army said. The soldiers fired back, and injured him. No soldiers were maimed in the attack, which took place outside the village of Aboud, northwest of Ramallah. The Paleostinian gunman received medical treatment on the scene, the army said. Inside the vehicle, the soldiers found a Carlo-style submachine gun, a makeshift weapon that is prevalent in the West Bank and in the Israeli underworld. The shooting attack came hours after IDF troops rubbed out a Paleostinian man who rammed his car into a West Bank bus stop north of Jerusalem on Wednesday evening in an apparent terror attack. According to the army, the driver crashed his truck into the metal bollards surrounding a bus stop near the Kochav Yaakov settlement in the central West Bank, southeast of Ramallah. Israeli troops who were stationed nearby opened fire, killing the Paleostinian man. The Israeli civilians and soldiers who were standing at the bus stop were uninjured. Upon searching the car, the soldiers found the driver to be holding a knife, the military said. The driver was later identified by the Paleostinian health ministry as Hussein Salem Abu Ghosh, 24, from Qalandiya.
In the morning, police units scoured the Jerusalem area in pursuit of a driver who smashed his vehicle through Hizma checkpoint in the city as security forces were carrying out security checks. According to security forces, the security personnel stationed at the checkpoint began the process of engagement and attempted to stop the suspect, who managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been...
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by Israeli security forces and taken in for questioning, Army Radio reports. | |||
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