Israeli police described the incident as a terrorist attack
Palestinian truck driver killed today one Israeli soldier crashing his vehicle into a checkpoint on the border with the occupied West Bank, and he was shot and killed in the ensuing chaseIsraeli police and health officials said.
The army said only that three soldiers were injured in the incident, on the Israeli side of the Makabim checkpoint on a main road. Medical officials said one of them died.
Police initially said the driver, a 41-year-old man with a work permit in Israel, was shot and wounded outside the nearby Palestinian village of Nilin.
He was later pronounced dead, police said, describing the incident terrorist attack.
THE Islamist militant organization Hamaswhich has escalated attacks in the West Bank in a challenge to Israel and the internationally-backed Palestinian Authority, called the incident a “heroic operation” but did not claim responsibility.
The West Bank, one of the areas where Palestinians seek to establish their state, has seen a spike in violence in recent months.
Source :Skai
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