(Jerusalem) Three people were injured on Saturday in the occupied West Bank in a car-ramming attack whose alleged perpetrator was killed by Israeli soldiers, according to the Israeli army and the emergency services.
The military said a “terrorist” carried out a car-ramming attack in the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar before being neutralized.
A spokesman later confirmed to AFP that he was dead.
According to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, three men were injured, one seriously.
No details were immediately available on the identity of the alleged assailant.
Beit Ummar is located a few kilometers north of the city of Hebron, in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
Israeli police claimed earlier Saturday that they shot and killed an Arab Israeli who they said grabbed a policeman’s gun and fired it in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The man killed was identified as Mohammed al-Assibi, a 26-year-old medical student who lived in Houra, a Bedouin town in southern Israel. His family rejected the police version and demanded to see surveillance camera footage, according to local media.
The police said there were none.
These deadly incidents on Saturday end a relative pause in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, since the beginning of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan ten days ago.
This conflict claimed the lives of at least 88 Palestinians (including combatants and civilians, including minors), an Israeli Arab, 14 Israelis (including members of the Israeli forces and civilians) and a Ukrainian woman, according to a count of AFP compiled from official Israeli and Palestinian sources.