Victim taken to hospital with head injury after incident near Migron settlement, just north of Jerusalem
An Israeli woman was seriously wounded Tuesday in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank, the military and medics said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it was treating a woman approximately 20 years of age after she was hit by a Palestinian car near the entrance of the settlement of Migron, just north of Jerusalem.
Footage of the attack showed a black crossover SUV making a turn after spotting the victim walking from a parking lot to a sidewalk. The vehicle rammed into the woman on the sidewalk, before driving over a small garden area, and onto a highway, fleeing the scene.
MDA said the victim was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek with a serious head injury. The hospital said her condition was stable.
The attacker was shot by officers after a brief chase, police said. He was also taken to Shaare Zedek, where medical officials declared him dead.
The Kan public broadcaster named him as 45-year-old Rani Mamoun Fayz Abu Ali, a father of five from the town of Beitunia. The report said he had a valid permit to work in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the incident was a ramming attack, but did not immediately provide further details.
The attack came as tensions were high in the West Bank.
In the spring, the IDF launched a major anti-terror offensive mostly focused on the northern West Bank to deal with a series of Palestinian attacks that have left 31 people in Israel and the West Bank dead since the start of the year.
The operation has netted more than 2,500 arrests in near-nightly raids and left around 150 Palestinians dead, many of them — but not all — while carrying out attacks or during clashes with security forces. At the same time, there has been a steep rise in settler attacks against Palestinians and security forces.
Times of Israel