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| Palestinian who ran at troops shot dead near West Bank settlement |
| 2016-08-27 |
| [IsraelTimes] Soldiers fire on alleged terrorist who refused to stop after running at guard post near Silwad; no soldiers injured in incident A Paleostinian man was rubbed out by IDF troops Friday morning when he ran toward a guard post near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah. The IDF said it appeared that the suspect was not armed when he approached the guard post near the adjacent Paleostinian village of Silwad. He did not heed the soldiers’ repeated orders to halt and was shot, Army Radio reported. Channel 2 reported on Friday evening that the Paleostinian was being described by security forces as a terrorist. It noted that Israel ordered a security alert earlier in the week amid reports that a Paleostinian suspect had disappeared from his home having said he intended to carry out a terror attack, and that the security alert was cancelled on Friday morning. A senior Paleostinian official later named the man as Iyad Hamad, 38, and said he suffered from mental illness and was unarmed, Channel 2 said. Paleostinian media reported that the man, identified as 38-year-old Ziad Zakaria Hamed, died after suffering a critical gunshot wound. According to the IDF, troops stationed outside Silwad identified a suspect running toward them and opened fire, killing him. The details of the case are being investigated, an army spokesperson said. No Israeli soldiers were maimed. Soldier lightly stabbed during West Bank confrontation, attacker shot dead [IsraelTimes] An Israeli soldier was lightly injured Wednesday in a stabbing attack in the northern West Bank, while his attacker was shot dead, the army said. The injured soldier was among a group of troops chasing Palestinians who had thrown rocks from their car at passing vehicles near the Yitzhar settlement. One of the Palestinians exited their vehicle and stabbed the soldier. The injured soldier then shot and killed the assailant, the army said in a statement. The soldier was taken to a hospital for treatment. The identity of the assailant was not immediately clear. Earlier on Wednesday, Border Police arrested a Palestinian woman in possession of a knife near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, a police spokesperson said. She was handed over to security forces for questioning, police said. 18-year-old Kfar Qassem resident arrested after threatening attack [Ynet] An 18-year-old man from Kfar Qassem was arrested after calling the Israel Police's emergency hotline and saying he intended to commit a terrorist attack at a police station. The suspect admitted to the act in questioning, citing anger as his motivation. He was remanded to house arrest for a period of three days. |
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