Palestinian Shot Dead Trying To Ram Israeli Soldiers With Car: Army

Earlier Friday, Omar al-Hroub, 55, was shot and killed after an alleged attempted vehicle ramming attack in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron’s Halhul village.

Near Hebron, a large West Bank city where anti-Israel hostility is strong, a Palestinian motorist tried to ram troops who then shot him dead, the army spokesman’s office said.

Family refuted the Israeli claims saying that their daughter had crossed two Israeli checkpoints before she was killed, which means that she would have been caught if she acquired a knife.

He also noted that Israel only agreed to give construction materials to 1,500 applicants out of 30,000, who need to rebuild their houses. She says security forces shot back and hit the attacker before he escaped in a van. “Hundreds of Palestinians are attacking forces, hurling rocks and rolling burning tyres at them”, an army spokeswoman told AFP. As said by the military that the area for the assailant is being searched by the forces.

Israeli police claim that the 17-year-old pulled out a knife at the Cave of Patriarchs and screamed at Israeli troops, who opened fire.

“No casualties or damage have been reported to the crossing or its operators”.

Some 75 of the Palestinians are alleged to have launched attacks on Israelis, and died as a result, while the remained died in clashes with security forces.

The violence has been fuelled by a number of factors, including frustration at the failure of long-running peace efforts, Israel’s 48-year occupation, and tensions over a shrine in Jerusalem that is holy to both Muslims and Jews.

The IDF confirmed the driver was killed by the soldiers’ fire.

After yesterday’s protest, clashes broke out between Palestinian stone throwers and Israeli soldiers, with six Palestinians wounded, an AFP correspondent said. No Israelis were injured during the incident.

Three Palestinians were shot, one resident said, but their condition was not known.

No Israelis were hurt in that attack either.

Separately in the northern West Bank town of Tubas on Wednesday, clashes erupted during an Israeli military raid.

One of its leaders, Mushir al-Masri, called for “resistance until the complete liberation of Palestine”.