The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health confirmed that a Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli military forces near the village, which is located adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish.
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“The forces responded, shooting the attacker and resulting in his death”.
Hebron, the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, has been a frequent flashpoint in the latest violence.
The country has been embroiled in a two-month bout of violence characterized by Palestinian stabbings and vehicle attacks, along with deadly shootings of numerous alleged assailants and clashes in the West Bank.
According to Israeli media outlets, the vehicle was hit but the soldiers inside were unharmed.
After warning shots were ignored, “forces fired live fire and tank rounds” and the suspects retreated, she said.
The move brought Israel closer to solving a case that has enraged Palestinians and been a key factor fueling a two-month wave of violence.
That attack came just hours after another some 20 kilometres (12 miles) away in which a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier before being shot dead.
Earlier in the day, two Palestinians attacked a soldier with knives in the city of Hebron, also in the West Bank, wounding him before Israeli troops shot and killed them, the military said.
“Four months have passed since the arson attack against the Dawabsha family”, he said in a statement.
The arson attack was widely condemned by both Palestinians and Israelis.
“Two assailants stabbed a soldier in Hebron”, a military statement said.
The Associated Press (AP) reported that the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, said Thursday it had arrested a number of youths belonging to a “Jewish terrorist” organisation and that interrogators were checking “concrete suspicions” they were connected to the Duma attack.
He said they were wounded by tank fire. Israeli security forces have killed more than 100 Palestinians, the majority of whom were shot after attacking Israelis.
The Israeli campaign will likely rile Egypt, one of Israel’s few allies in the Arab world, and which depends heavily on tourism.
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Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld identified the assailant as a 21-year-old Palestinian from the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
