Israeli
policemen stand close to a black Mitsubishi pickup truck following an
alleged car-ramming attack at the entrance to the illegal settlement of
Kiryat Arba in the southern part of the occupied West Bank on September
16, 2016. (Photo by Ma'an)
Israeli military forces have
fatally shot three people in the occupied West Bank, alleging that they
had attempted to carry out car-ramming and stabbing attacks.
Local
sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Israeli
soldiers opened fire from close range at a pickup truck near
the entrance to the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement, located on the
outskirts of al-Khalil (Hebron), on Friday afternoon, killing a man and
wounding a woman on board, Arabic-language Ma’an news agency reported.
Israeli
media outlets later claimed that the unarmed couple had rammed the car
into a bus stop at the Elias Junction outside the entrance to Kiryat
Arba. Three people purportedly sustained injuries in the alleged attack
carried out by the Palestinian.
The development came shortly after
the Israeli forces shot and killed a young man, who was reported to be a
Jordanian national, at the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem
al-Quds.
The Israeli police said they saw the 28-year-old man coming towards them with a knife drawn, and opened fire. Israeli
forensic policemen gather around the body of a man, who was shot dead
following an alleged stabbing attack at the entrance to the Old City of
Jerusalem al-Quds on September 16, 2016.(Photo by AFP)The
alleged assailant, whose name has yet to be released, was carrying a
Jordanian passport, but Israeli officials are reportedly investigating
whether he held a Palestinian ID card too.
The Israeli military
said its troops also shot dead another Palestinian, who it alleged
stabbed and injured an Israeli soldier in al-Khalil.
On Thursday,
30-year-old Muhammad Ahmad Abed al-Fattah al-Sarrahin succumbed to
gunshot wounds he had sustained earlier in the day, when Israeli forces
raided Beit Ula town, located 10 kilometers northwest of al-Khalil.
The
occupied Palestinian territories have witnessed new tensions ever since
Israeli forces imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian
worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds in
August 2015.
More than 240 Palestinians have lost their lives at
the hands of Israeli forces in the tensions since the beginning of last
October.
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