The vehicular attack in which an Israeli army officer and a border policeman were injured just before dawn Monday, west of Ramallah, was exceptional. Veteran security figures who have been keeping watch on the West Bank for years can’t recall a case of using a car to deliberately ram into people when there was more than one person inside the vehicle. Car ramming attacks generally involve one person, who may have acted on momentary impulse.

In this case there were three Palestinians in the car, two of whom were shot dead by soldiers immediately after the attack.

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