Our four Palestinians martyred by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, Palestinian officials said, and a suspected car-ramming attacker was killed after wounding an Israeli soldier, Israeli medics and the army said.
Israeli army confirmed its troops had fired on “rioters” who attacked soldiers in two separate clashes in the West Bank overnight.
A 20-year-old woman soldier was “moderately injured and evacuated to a hospital for medical treatment” following a suspected car-ramming north of Jerusalem, the army said. Jerusalem s Shaare Tzedek hospital confirmed the alleged attacker had been killed.
The West Bank has suffered spiralling violence this year, with near daily Israeli army raids leading to scores of deaths — of Palestinian fighters and also civilians — while Jewish settlers have been increasingly targeted by at times deadly Palestinian violence.
In Kafr Ein, near Ramallah, two brothers were killed by Israeli fire, the Palestinian health ministry said.-UNS/AFP
