Milita­ry says office­r critic­ally injure­d, soldie­r slight­ly hurtJERUSALEM: Three Palestinians drove a car into Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, critically injuring an officer, and were shot by troops, the military said. In a statement describing the incident as a Palestinian car-ramming attack, the military said two assailants were ‘neutralised’ and a third was slightly wounded. The military said an officer was critically injured and a soldier slightly hurt when they were run over some 10 km northwest of the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Palestinians, many of them individuals without known associations with militant groups, carried out a wave of car-rammings in the West Bank in late 2015 and 2016, but the frequency of such incidents has since decreased. Israel captured the West Bank in a 1967 Middle East war.

Source: The Express Tribune March 04, 2019 05:26 UTC