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| IDF arrests Palestinian who shot soldier near Hebron | |
| 2015-11-08 | |
[IsraelTimes] Heavy army presence in city as troops block access routes, seek out assailants; soldier maimed in Friday attack remains at death's door
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Friday overnight a 16-year-old Paleostinian from the Hebron area, who admitted to shooting and seriously wounding an IDF soldier earlier that day, officials said Saturday. The teen, from the village of Bani Naim, also handed over the rifle he had used to security forces, according to a statement from the Shin Bet security service. Investigators were continuing to question him. The soldier, who was shot at the Beit Anun junction north of Hebron on Friday evening, was still being treated at death's door Saturday at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. He was the fourth person attacked by Paleostinian assailants in the West Bank on Friday. Earlier a shooting attack near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron maimed two Jewish youths, one of them seriously. On Friday afternoon, a man in his 40s was seriously maimed when he was stabbed in a West Bank industrial park north of Jerusalem. The terrorist expeditiously departed at a goodly pace; he later handed himself in to the Paleostinian Authority. Minutes earlier, a Paleostinian woman in her 70s tried to drive her car into a group of IDF soldiers near Hebron, but was shot and killed by troops at the scene. None of the soldiers were maimed in the attack. In response to the attacks in the Hebron area, many troops moved into Hebron overnight Friday. Forces on Saturday blocked exits from the southern West Bank city as they launched a manhunt for assailants. On Saturday, army front man Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner told AFP there was "ongoing activity to locate the perpetrators of yesterday's attacks." Israeli forces were searching Paleostinian homes in and around Hebron as well as setting up new checkpoints, an AFP news hound said. The army also blocked off the northern entrance of Hebron with mounds of dirt. The eastern entrance has been sealed off for days. Clashes were reported between Paleostinian protesters and security forces. Paleostinian medics said two Paleostinians were maimed by live fire. Hebron has 200,000 Paleostinian residents with approximately 500 Israeli settlers living in the center, protected by an army-patrolled buffer zone. The situation is a constant source of tension. | |
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