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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.
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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. 

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