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AFP
Ramallah
Israeli security forces said they shot and killed two Palestinians who carried out a car-ramming attack on Monday in the occupied West Bank that injured a soldier and a policeman.
A senior Palestinian official claimed the initial incident was likely an accident, with the car colliding into an Israeli military vehicle as it rounded a bend. The army said security forces fired at three assailants, “neutralising two of them and lightly injuring a third”, while police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said two of the Palestinians were killed.
“Assailants ran over a number of soldiers who had stopped at the side of the road on their way out of the village” of Kafr Nama, northwest of Ramallah, a military statement said.
“An (army) officer was severely injured and a border police soldier was lightly injured as a result,” the army said.
Rosenfeld said that the policeman injured in the pre-dawn attack was subsequently released from hospital.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised soldiers for having swiftly “eliminated” the attackers and vowed to fast-track the demolitions of their homes.
“I have ordered that the demolitions of these homes be speeded up,” he said.
“We are determined to continue our vigorous struggle against the murderers and against terrorism everywhere.” Israel regularly razes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israelis.
Ramallah
Israeli security forces said they shot and killed two Palestinians who carried out a car-ramming attack on Monday in the occupied West Bank that injured a soldier and a policeman.
A senior Palestinian official claimed the initial incident was likely an accident, with the car colliding into an Israeli military vehicle as it rounded a bend. The army said security forces fired at three assailants, “neutralising two of them and lightly injuring a third”, while police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said two of the Palestinians were killed.
“Assailants ran over a number of soldiers who had stopped at the side of the road on their way out of the village” of Kafr Nama, northwest of Ramallah, a military statement said.
“An (army) officer was severely injured and a border police soldier was lightly injured as a result,” the army said.
Rosenfeld said that the policeman injured in the pre-dawn attack was subsequently released from hospital.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised soldiers for having swiftly “eliminated” the attackers and vowed to fast-track the demolitions of their homes.
“I have ordered that the demolitions of these homes be speeded up,” he said.
“We are determined to continue our vigorous struggle against the murderers and against terrorism everywhere.” Israel regularly razes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israelis.
