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Three Border Police officers injured in West Bank vehicle attack

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Three Israeli Border Police officers were injured yesterday after a Palestinian rammed his vehicle into them in the West Bank.

The attack took place in the afternoon outside the Palestinian town of Beit Ummar near Hebron in the Gush Etzion region. The officers all received lower body injuries and were transferred to a Jerusalem hospital for treatment. The attacker, who was later named as 23 year-old Khalid Ahmad Alyan from Beit Ummar, was shot and killed by other Border Police officers at the scene.

According to media reports clashes later broke out in Beit Ummar between locals and Israeli security forces.

Also yesterday, a five-year-old boy was injured after the car in which he travelling was struck by rocks at an intersection near Ma’aleh Amos, also in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank.

In total, five attacks by Palestinians on Israelis took place in the West Bank over the weekend. On Friday, a Palestinian man attempted to ram his car against Israeli troops stationed near Ofra, north of Jerusalem. Soldiers opened fire and stopped the car, but the assailant exited the vehicle and approached the soldiers with a meat cleaver. The soldiers then fired shots and seriously wounded the assailant.

In a separate incident on Friday, a 23-year-old Palestinian man was arrested near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron after being caught in possession of a knife. He admitted when questioned that he intended to carry out a stabbing.

On Saturday night, an Israeli vehicle came under fire on Route 60, near where yesterday’s car ramming attack took place. Nobody was injured in the attack.

Since October 2015, a wave of Palestinian attacks has killed 42 people. Many have taken place in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank where Israelis and Palestinians live in close proximity to one another.