Police spokeswoman Luba Samri explained that two of the Israelis were moderately wounded in the attack, according to The Times of Malta.
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Israeli media said the wounded were teens between the ages of 16 and 19.
A 73-year-old Palestinian woman accused of trying to run over Israeli soldiers has been shot dead in the West Bank.
On Friday afternoon, Israeli troops fatally shot Thawarat Ashrawi as she drove her auto into a gas station in Halhul, a town in the Hebron-area of the West Bank.
Hebron has 200,000 Palestinian residents with about 500 Israeli settlers living in the centre, protected by an army-patrolled buffer zone.
The spokesman said the woman was shot and injured by the security guard.
Searches for the assailants were underway.
Also yesterday, terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel that exploded without causing injuries or damage, the military said.
The shots were fired from a distance as Jewish worshippers left after prayers linked to Sarah, the matriarch believed to be buried at the site.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the shooting.
Abu Rdeineh stressed that Jerusalem and the holy sites are a red line and settlements are illegal, adding that Palestinians reject any interim solutions that don’t include the establishment of the Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital, on the foundation of the Arab Peace Initiative and the worldwide legitimacy.
Human rights groups in Hebron have questioned the apparent Israeli policy of shooting to kill. Such conditions facilitate further extrajudicial killings in this neighborhood, as well as further takeovers of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers. It said troops jumped out of the way unharmed and opened fire.
Footage on Israeli television showed bullet holes in the car’s front and back windscreens.
The hospital confirmed her age and said she had died before being admitted. The camera appears to be attached to the helmet of a soldier who gestures at al-Sharawi, though it is not clear whether he intends her to pull over to the side of the road or to pass.
Israeli medics push a stretcher carrying a Palestinian woman who reportedly stabbed an Israeli security guard and was then shot by him near the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit. Israeli forces have killed at least 77 Palestinians, many of them teenagers.
New shocking data has revealed that “a majority of Jewish Israelis (53%) … said they agreed with the statement that ‘any Palestinian who has perpetrated a terror attack against Jews should be killed on the spot, ‘” the survey, carried out by the Jerusalem-based Israel Democracy Institute, said.
Israeli leaders have called on security forces to shoot suspected attackers on the spot, while others have urged civilians to take up arms since the latest bout of violence.
The attacks – two stabbings and a auto ramming – took place Sunday.
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Since October 1, Israeli soldiers or settlers have killed at least 75 Palestinians, including bystanders, unarmed protesters and alleged attackers.
