 [IsraelTimes] Driver rubbed out by security forces; maimed treated at the scene next to the Elazar settlement and evacuated to hospitals; doctors fighting to save life of boy, 17
Two Israelis were hit by a car and injured on Friday while standing at a bus stop outside Elazar in the central West Bank, just south of Jerusalem, in what the military said was a terror attack.
A 17-year-old teenager was very seriously maimed and a woman, 19, was moderately hurt, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said.
The two were identified as siblings Nahum and Noam Nevis from Elazar.
They were treated at the scene; then the boy was evacuated to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital and the woman was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, both in Jerusalem.
The director of Hadassah, prof. Yoram Weiss said Nahum was in surgery fighting for his life, with a skull fracture and a brain injury.
Doctors at Shaare Zedek said Noam was conscious, but suffering from injuries to her limbs.
The car rolled over after the attack, and when the suspected attacker tried to emerge from it, he was rubbed out by police at the scene, reports said.
Etzion Regional Council head Shlomo Ne’eman said the incident "looks like a terror attack" despite the fact that the car bore Israeli license plates.
Israel Radio said the car appeared to have been a stolen vehicle.
Elazar is a settlement adjacent to Migdal Oz in the Etzion Bloc, where yeshiva student Dvir Sorek was stabbed to death last week in a suspected terror attack. Also nearby is the Etzion Junction, which has seen multiple fatal terror attacks in recent years.
The attacker, 26-year-old Ala Harimi from the Bethlehem region, was a known felon and drug addict associated with the Islamic Jihad and the Fatah movements. He was jailed in Israel for terror offences between 2014-2015.
He was shot dead by an off-duty policeman who was on the scene. 
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