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Soldiers shoot, kill Palestinian man, injure wife; IDF: They tried to ram troops
2021-04-10
From few days ago.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media identify the man as Osama Mahmoud Mansour, 42; IDF says couple attempted to commit a car-ramming attack, but wife says they left home to run an errand.
"1) Pick up hummus, 2) Ram Jooos,..."
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Paleostinian man in the West Bank early Tuesday morning in what the Israeli military deemed an attempted ramming attack, an account disputed by Paleostinian witnesses.

"IDF soldiers thwarted a car-ramming incident overnight during an operation in Bir Nabala," the IDF said in a statement, referring to a town northeast of Jerusalem.

Paleostinian media identified the man as Osama Mahmoud Mansour, 42, a resident of the West Bank town of Biddu, close to Jerusalem. His wife rejected the Israeli military’s account and said the couple had simply gone to run an errand.

"There were two army vehicles and some soldiers. They asked us to stop, so we stopped. There were a number of cars with us as well [at the roadblock]. We turned off the car. They told us to go, so we fired up the car and began heading out. Then they hit us with bullets," his wife — whose name has not yet been published — told official Paleostinian TV.

The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry said Mansour said the man was brought at death's door to the Paleostine Medical Complex in Ramallah but died of his wounds. Mansour’s wife was also injured, according to the Health Ministry.

"[After Mansour was shot] the car began veering to the left. He looked like he had just gone to sleep. I started driving and pulled the car over until we found some young men who could get us to a hospital," Mansour’s wife said.

The army said that soldiers were manning a roadblock that was set up in order to enable other forces in the area to operate without interruption from passing traffic.

Soldiers at the checkpoint identified a car that stopped at the checkpoint and "suddenly accelerated toward another group of soldiers operating in the area," endangered the lives of the troops, the army said.

The incident came amid an uptick in violence in the West Bank in recent weeks, with an increasing number of rock-throwing attacks and Molotov cocktailings along highways as well as a number of attacks on Paleostinians.

Last week IDF soldiers arrested a Paleostinian man who allegedly tried to ram a group of soldiers near the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. The vehicle instead hit several other Israeli vehicles and the suspect was arrested. There were no injuries reported in the incident, at the parking lot of the Ein Mabu’a nature reserve. The military said the incident appeared to be a terror attack, but did not seem to rule out the possibility it had been an accident.

Earlier in March, a Paleostinian man tried to stab an Israeli soldier during an overnight operation in the West Bank village of Tubas and was shot by another soldier.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  wife says they left home to run an errand.

For a Paleostinian, this is an errand.

"... and see if you can run over some occupiers on the way, Mahmoud."

"Inshallah, mater mea."
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-04-10 03:47  

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