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| IDF: Soldier moderately hurt in car-ramming attack in West Bank’s Huwara |
| 2023-05-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] Military says forces hunting for assailant who is thought to have fled toward Nablus, after troops open fire at vehicle; serviceman taken to hospital in Petah Tikva. An Israeli soldier was moderately maimed in a car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday evening, the military and medics said. The Israel Defense Forces said the soldier was conducting "routine activity" in the Huwara area when a vehicle accelerated toward him and rammed into him. Another soldier shot up the vehicle which fled the area, apparently toward the city of Nablus, just north of Huwara. The soldier was taken to Beilinson Hospital in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikvah, where he was listed in moderate condition. The IDF said that the soldier’s family has been notified of his injury. The IDF said that troops launched a manhunt for the assailant. Huwara has long been a flashpoint in the West Bank, as it is just about the only Paleostinian town that Israelis regularly travel through in order to reach settlements. There are plans to build a bypass road for settlers to avoid having to travel through the town, but the construction work has been stalled. There have been several shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers in the town in recent months, including the killing of two brothers in February. Earlier this month, a Paleostinian woman stabbed a soldier in Huwara, before being rubbed out. Tensions between Israel and the Paleostinians have been high for the past year, with the Israeli military conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank, in the wake of a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks. Since the beginning of the year, Paleostinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank have killed 19 people and left several more seriously hurt. At least 108 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed during that span, most of them while carrying out attacks or during festivities with security forces, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under circumstances that are being investigated. Related: Huwara: 2023-05-16 Palestinian gunman killed as IDF prepares to raze Huwara terrorist’s son’s home Huwara: 2023-05-10 Sudden Jihad Syndrome: 2 Paleo stab attacks foiled but J’lem bus torched after took wrong turn Huwara: 2023-05-10 Soldier lightly hurt during Nablus raid by Palestinian-set bomb |
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