The attacker and a passenger in his car were caught and detained.
The Scene of an attempted stabbing attack near Ariel, in the West Bank on December 31, 2021.(photo credit: NASSER ISHTAYEH/FLASH90)
An IDF soldier was moderately injured in a car-ramming attack near the settlement of Neveh Tzuf in the West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli media reported.
Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics treated the 19-year-old soldier, who was rammed on Road 465 outside of Neveh Tzuf.
An Israeli Air Force (IAF) helicopter was rushed to the scene of the attack to transport the soldier, who is suffering from limb injuries, to a hospital.
The attacker and a passenger in his car were caught and detained.
The Neveh Tzuf car-ramming attack is the latest in a series of terrorist attacks carried out over the last few months in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Last month, Palestinian gunmen killed Yehuda Dimentman and wounded two others in the West Bank. Two days later, A 38-year-old Israeli was lightly injured in a stabbing attack in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The attacks were not contained to Jerusalem and the West Bank. On December 29, an IDF-hired contractor working on the Gaza border fence was shot and lightly wounded.