JERUSALEM – A suspected assailant was shot dead by Israeli soldiers after injuring three young men with his car in the southern West Bank on April 1, the army and medics said.
The army said a “terrorist” had conducted a “ramming attack adjacent to the town of Beit Ummar” before being neutralised, with a spokesman confirming to AFP the presumed assailant’s death.
Magen David Adom medics said the three men were taken to hospitals in Jerusalem with serious, moderate and light wounds.
There were no immediate details on the suspected assailant.
The latest violence comes less than 24 hours after an Arab-Israeli allegedly snatched a gun from a police officer and fired it in a scuffle at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, before being shot dead.
The deaths on April 1 bring an end to the relative lull in violence since the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan some 10 days ago.
Since the start of the year, the conflict has claimed the lives of 88 Palestinians, including militants and civilians, and one Arab-Israeli.
Fourteen other Israelis, including members of the security forces and civilians, and one Ukrainian have been killed over the same period, according to an AFP tally based on official sources from both sides. AFP
