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Three Israeli teens injured in suspected vehicular attack in West Bank

Xinhua, May 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Three Israeli teens were injured Thursday near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank in an apparent militant vehicular attack, said police spokesperson Mickey Rosenfeld.

Eye witnesses said three people were injured after a suspicious car drove into a hitchhiking post beside the junction leading to Alon Shvut, a Jewish settlement southwest of Jerusalem.

Two of the victims were lightly injured and the other is in moderate condition.

Israeli security forces arrived shortly at the scene, Rosenfeld told Xinhua.

According to Channel 10 news, the suspected attacker, a resident of the West Bank city of Hebron, was caught shortly after the incident.

There have been bouts of vehicular attacks and stabbings against Israelis in the West Bank and Jerusalem in recent months, amid tensions built up as a result of the collapse of peace talks last April, the Israeli military campaign in Gaza last summer, strife over the holy site of Temple Mount between Jewish and Muslim worshippers, and constant clashes between Palestinian protesters and security forces. Endit