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Suspected car-ramming attack wounds Israeli soldiers: army
JERUSALEM, July 7, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A suspected Palestinian car-ramming
attack in the occupied West Bank has wounded five Israeli soldiers and the
alleged assailant has been arrested, the Israeli army said Sunday.
The troops were stationed on a roadside near the Palestinian town of Hizma
as part of “operational activity” on Saturday night when the driver of a car
rammed his vehicle into them, the army said.
Three soldiers were moderately injured and two hurt lightly in the
incident near the town, which is located close to a checkpoint dividing the
West Bank from Jerusalem, it said in a statement.
Soldiers later arrested the driver and his father at a checkpoint, it
added.
It said an initial inquiry “suggests that the incident was a car-ramming
attack” and not an accident.
Israeli army raids in the West Bank regularly set off tensions with
Palestinian residents.
Palestinians have carried out sporadic car-ramming, knife and gun attacks
against Israeli soldiers in the territory occupied by Israel since the 1967
Six-Day War.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1253 hrs