An Israeli soldier was seriously maimed in a car-ramming attack in the southern West Bank on Saturday evening, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the assailant rammed his vehicle into a reservist soldier at a junction outside the Al Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron, before fleeing the scene. Later in the evening, the suspected rammer turned himself into security forces, the IDF said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the 30-year-old soldier was taken to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba at death's door.
During the incident, the IDF said troops shot up the car used in the attack. The army was investigating if the gunfire also mistakenly hit a civilian car driving in the area, lightly wounding one of the occupants.
MDA said that a 45-year-old man in the civilian car was lightly maimed by shrapnel. The man drove from the scene to the nearby Otniel junction where he met up with medics.
Two others in the car, a man and a young boy, were treated for acute anxiety, MDA added.
The IDF said a large number of forces were chasing after the assailant, and the army had imposed a closure on Hebron amid the pursuit. The manhunt ended when the alleged attacker turned himself in.
Earlier on Saturday, police said a Paleostinian was shot and "neutralized" by a civilian security guard at the West Bank Qalandiya checkpoint after launching a flare at security forces.
There were no other injuries in the incident.
Police said that the assailant was also armed with a knife, and was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the symbol for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
terror group.
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