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| Palestinian killed by IDF troops in alleged attempted car-ramming in West Bank |
| 2023-07-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] Military says soldiers operating in village near Nablus shot up vehicle speeding toward them, killing 18-year-old driver and wounding and arresting passenger A Paleostinian man was killed by Israeli forces and another was arrested in an alleged attempted car-ramming attack in the West Bank late Friday night, Paleostinian health officials and the Israeli military said. According to the Israel Defense Forces, a Paleostinian-owned vehicle accelerated toward troops who were carrying out "proactive activity" in the village of Sebastia, close to Nablus. "The forces returned fire at the two suspects in the car," the IDF said, calling the incident an attempted car-ramming attack. The IDF said the driver was "neutralized" and the second Paleostinian in the car was maimed and detained by the soldiers. No troops were hurt in the incident. The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said the driver of the car, 18-year-old Fawzi Hani Mukhlafa, was brought to the Rafidia Hospital in Nablus where he was declared dead. The official PA news agency Wafa named the maimed and detained Paleostinian as Muhammad Omar Mukhaimer. His condition was not immediately known. Footage circulating online showed dozens of bullet holes on the car the pair were in. Earlier Friday, another Paleostinian teenager was killed during festivities with Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Umm Safa. Three Israeli troops were also hurt in separate festivities in the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar. According to a tally by The Times of Israel, 155 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed since the beginning of the year — most of them during festivities with security forces or while carrying out attacks, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under unclear circumstances. |
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