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2019-10-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Driver tries to ram IDF troops in West Bank; is shot, badly injured — police
[IsraelTimes] Alleged assailant from East Jerusalem subdued after colliding with Border Police armored vehicle following raid in refugee camp near Ramallah; officers say he brandished a knife.

A driver from East Jerusalem attempted to carry out a car-ramming attack against Israeli troops operating near Ramallah in the early hours of Thursday morning before he was shot and seriously injured, Border Police said in a statement.

There were no Israeli injuries reported.

In a statement, Border Police said the force had during the night raided the al-Am’ari refugee camp near Ramallah and arrested two wanted terror suspects.

As the troops were leaving the area, a car sped up to the officers’ armored vehicle and collided with it "with the intention of running over the combat fighters," the statement said.

The troops then "identified the terrorist making a suspicious movement and holding a suspicious object in his hand that turned out to be a knife." They subsequently shot and subdued him.

The statement identified the alleged assailant as a 20-year-old resident of East Jerusalem. It quoted medical officials as saying he had been seriously injured and taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The Paleostinian Prisoner Club, a Ramallah-based NGO, later identified the suspected assailant as Firas al-Halaq, 25, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.

After the attempted ramming, Paleostinians arrived at the scene and rioted, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the troops, the Border Police statement added. The officers responded with riot control means, it said.

On Saturday, an Israeli military position in the West Bank came under fire from a passing vehicle. There were no reported injuries in that incident near the Paleostinian city of Tulkarem, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Earlier this month, an bomb exploded next to an IDF position near the town of Beit Ummar in the West Bank. A second device was discovered at the army post and was neutralized by sappers.
An Nahar adds:
In May 2018, an Israeli special forces soldier was killed during an arrest operation in Al-Amari after being hit on the head by a stone thrown from a rooftop.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-18 00:01|| || Front Page|| [18 views ]  Top

#1 taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

If they have any sense, he'll succumb to injuries.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-18 05:40||   2019-10-18 05:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Credit where due--at least he wasn't trying to run down civilians. Unlike some others recently...
Posted by james  2019-10-18 22:46|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2019-10-18 22:46|| Front Page Top

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