Israeli security forces said they shot and killed two Palestinians who carried out a car-ramming attack yesterday in the occupied West Bank that injured a soldier and a policeman.
A senior Palestinian official said the initial incident was most likely an accident. The car crashed into an Israeli military vehicle as it rounded a bend.
The army said security forces fired at three assailants, “neutralising two of them and lightly injuring a third”. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said two of the Palestinians were killed.
“Assailants ran over a number of soldiers who had stopped at the side of the road on their way out of the village” of Kafr Nama, northwest of Ramallah, a military statement said. “An (army) officer was severely injured and a border police soldier was lightly injured as a result,” the army said.
Mr Rosenfeld said the policeman injured in the pre-dawn attack was released from hospital.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised soldiers for having swiftly “eliminated” the attackers and vowed to fast-track the demolitions of their homes.
He said: “We are determined to continue our vigorous struggle against the murderers and against terrorism everywhere.” Israel regularly razes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israelis.
Read the article in The Australian (AFP).