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Israeli military receives report of ‘terror attack’ in occupied West Bank
The attack is reported to have taken place in the Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military says details are currently under review.
West Bank checkpoint incident appears to be car ramming
Medical authorities are saying the three Israeli settlers who were injured are in moderate to light condition, saying that the assailant of the ramming attack was “neutralised” by nearby security forces.
They say the person who was operating the car drove into the settlers at a known hitchhiking spot in the occupied West Bank. The incident occurred in an area between Bethlehem in the West Bank, near a checkpoint leading to occupied East Jerusalem.
Security officials say they are now at the scene and are investigating. These checkpoints run through the West Bank and are areas that Palestinians frequent as they try to get from East Jerusalem to the West Bank.
We have observed an upward trend in attacks over the past month or so.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that two people have been wounded in the reported attack.
West Bank car-ramming suspect killed by Israeli forces, Palestinian Authority confirms
The Palestinian Wafa news agency, citing information from the Palestinian Authority-run General Authority for Civil Affairs, has reported that Israeli forces shot and killed a man alleged to have carried out the car-ramming attack near Bethlehem.
The report named the man as 32-year-old Mahdi Muhammad Awad Dirieh. It also noted that Israeli forces had shut down all entrances into Bethlehem governorate following the attack.
West Bank car-ramming attack follows familiar pattern
Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, who has reported extensively from the occupied West Bank, says the car-ramming attack near an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank is part of a string of attacks in recent weeks and months, prompted by resentment at Israel’s “subjugating” occupation that “controls every aspect of life” and efforts to “erase any possibility” of future Palestinian statehood.
She pointed out that the attack took place at a checkpoint leading into occupied East Jerusalem that Palestinians from Hebron or Bethlehem are only able to cross with “necessary military permits”.
“All of these towns are occupied by Israel, but even if Palestinians want to go to occupied East Jerusalem, they are going to have to cross an Israeli military checkpoint and sometimes get humiliated there,” she said.
Israeli forces raid town near Bethlehem after killing resident
Confrontations broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the village of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, after a large number of troops stormed the area.
Soldiers fired tear gas at crowds during the raid. They also stormed the home of Mahdi Mohammed Awad Dirieh, who was killed earlier today by Israeli fire after the army claimed he carried out a car-ramming attack.
Israeli snipers positioned themselves on the rooftops of residential buildings around Dirieh’s home while soldiers interrogated his family members.
