Two Palestinians rammed a vehicle into a bus stop used by Israelis in the occupied West Bank on Friday causing injuries before troops killed one of the assailants, the army said.
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Shortly afterward, two Palestinians rammed their auto into a bus stop, wounding three Israeli civilians near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba.
The soldier was taken to the hospital.
Mohammed Saraheen, 30, was killed while trying to evade arrest during the operation in the West Bank village of Beit Ula on Friday morning, the Israeli military said.
The soldiers later surrounded the home of Shalloudi before invading it, and interrogated his family, especially his father.
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Maan News Agency, a Palestinian news service, identified the male assailants as Firas Khdour from Bani Naim near Hebron.
The Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit said that “the terrorist was a Jordanian resident, who was entering the Old City of Jerusalem via Damascus Gate”. A second soldier shot him dead.
“In the attack, three civilians were injured”. Amro failed and the officers open fire, killing him. “Israel is flagrantly employing a systematic and willful policy of summary executions against the Palestinian people; such provocative acts are in direct violation of worldwide law and conventions”, she wrote in a statement yesterday.
The authorities say 144 were identified as attackers while others were killed during clashes and protests. The Palestinians say it is rooted in almost 50 years of military occupation and dwindling hopes for independence from Israeli rule.
A wave of violence that had subsided in recent months has flared up again as four attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank within 24 hours underscored the edgy mood between Israelis and Palestinians.
The Israeli military sent troop reinforcements to a flashpoint West Bank area on Saturday following a weekend surge in Palestinian attacks that shattered weeks of relative calm.
During the same period, Palestinian attackers have killed at least 33 Israelis in stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks. Israel has occupied the West Bank since capturing it in the 1967 Six-Day War.
“Let me be absolutely clear: settlements are illegal under worldwide law”.
Israeli leaders have blamed incitement by Palestinians for the spate of attacks. “The occupation, stifling and oppressive, must end”.
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Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1994.
