Security forces on high alert heading into Rosh Hashanah
Palestinian shot dead after ramming attack, police officer injured
Heading into the High Holy Days, the idF and police are on high alert due to a rise in shooting attacks by palestinian gunmen against the idF and israeli civilians.
on saturday, a palestinian man was shot dead after ramming his car into a police vehicle in the northern west Bank, near nablus. according to the idF, troops and police “identified a suspicious vehicle that accelerated toward them and tried to run them over” near the settlement of Havat Gilad.
“an idF soldier opened fire at the vehicle. the terrorist was neutralized,” the military added.
while no soldier was injured, a police officer was slightly injured.
the palestinian authority identified the driver as muhammad ali Hussein awad, 36, from the west Bank town of Beit ijza near jerusalem.
“the israeli police deliberately shot awad, with the aim of killing him, after his vehicle collided with a police vehicle in a traffic accident,” a pa spokesman said, accusing israel of killing a “defenseless palestinian” who was not “posing any danger.”
to counter the terror wave,
the israeli military has intensified its arrest raids against palestinians suspected of terrorism as part of operation Break the wave.
on Friday, the idF and shin Bet (israel security agency) announced that they had solved a series of shooting attacks in the west Bank and
arrested a number of palestinians belonging to a cell directed by Hamas.
in one attack on september 9, an israeli man was lightly injured after shots were fired at his vehicle as he drove by the palestinian village of einabus near nablus.
the cell fired 11 bullets at
two israeli vehicles from a passing car, the shin Bet said in a statement.
“the investigation of the suspects is still underway, but from all the information we have, a Hamas military squad, directed by Hamas operatives