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Israeli forces kill two Palestinian ‘assailants’ in Wbank:police
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, March 4, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Israeli
forces on Monday shot and killed two Palestinians after they ran over troops
in the occupied West Bank, injuring a soldier and a border policeman, police
and the army said.
The army said security forces opened fire at three Palestinian 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, an English-language military statement said.
“An (army) officer was severely injured and a Border Police soldier was
lightly injured as a result,” the army said.
“An initial inquiry indicates that the incident was a terror attack,” it
added. Rosenfeld said that the policeman injured in the pre-dawn attack had
already been released from hospital.
Kafr Nama’s mayor said that troops were leaving the village on foot after
an operation to arrest a Palestinian suspect there when the incident
occurred.
He did not know the identities of the Palestinians allegedly involved and
said they may have come from outside the village.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1308 hrs