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| Palestinian gunman opens fire at IDF troops in Ramallah, is shot dead |
| 2021-12-23 |
| [IsraelTimes] Israeli army says Paleostinian shot at them from passing vehicle as soldiers entered city to search for suspects; Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, praises attack. A Paleostinian gunman shot up Israeli troops Wednesday night from a passing car as they entered the outskirts of Ramallah, the Israeli army said. The soldiers returned fire, killing the assailant. According to the military, Israeli soldiers entered the city’s al-Bireh neighborhood to detain several Paleostinians who had approached the boundaries of the nearby settlement of Psagot. During the search, the gunman opened fire. The soldiers shot back, wounding him. The man, identified as 26-year-old Mohammad Issa Abbas, later perished in a Ramallah hospital, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry said. It was not clear whether the gunman was connected to the suspects sought by the soldiers. No Israeli soldiers were maimed, according to the army. Recent weeks have seen an uptick in Paleostinian attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. At least nine incidents have taken place over the past month and a half, many of them in Jerusalem. Hamas officials were quick to praise the reported attack on Wednesday night, pledging that more would soon follow. The terror group did not claim Issa as a member, however. "The occupation must expect more such responses of resistance," Hussein Abu Kweik, a senior figure in the group’s West Bank division, told official Hamas television. Abu Kweik added that the coming days would be "pregnant" with "resistance activities." "Our people will not wave the flag of surrender and will continue to resist by every means," Abu Kweik said. |
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