Palestinian car-ramming suspect shot dead as tensions over West Bank rise
The Israeli army says the Palestinian teenager deliberately hit a soldier with his car in a settlement near Hebron.
A Palestinian teen suspected of deliberately ramming his car at an Israeli soldier in the West Bank was shot dead by Israeli forces today.
The Israel Defense Forces said the suspect “was speeding toward IDF fighters near a military post” before he was “neutralized” near a settlement southeast of Hebron. One soldier was injured and taken to a hospital in Beersheba in moderate condition, the military said.
The driver, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, was Bahaa Muhammad Abdullah Alawada, a 15-year-old from the town of Deir Samat in the southern West Bank.
The incident follows the shooting death of another Palestinian teen during clashes with Israeli forces in the Al-Fuwar refugee camp near Hebron on Wednesday. The day before, a 21-year-old Israeli soldier died when a rock was dropped on his head during a raid in the West Bank village of Yabad.
