Palestinian female assailant killed in car attack at Israeli soldiers
Xinhua, March 4, 2016 Adjust font size:
Israel's military said it shot and killed a female Palestinian driver after she apparently rammed her car at a group of soldiers in the West Bank, lightly wounding one of them.
"An assailant rammed her vehicle into a soldier guarding the Gush Etzion junction," a military spokesperson said in a statement.
"Forces at the site responded to the imminent threat and shot the attacker, resulting in her death," the statement read.
The Sha'arei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem, where the soldier was taken, said he sustained light injuries to his upper body.
The Gush Etzion junction, a major crossroad in the West Bank between Jerusalem and Hebron, is a site for many hitchhiking soldiers and settlers.
The incident was the latest in a six-month-long of Palestinian unrest, including frequent stabbing, shooting, and car-ramming attacks in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
At least 170 Palestinians and 27 Israelis have been killed since October.
Israel has been accusing the Palestinian Authority of fueling the violence with "incitement" against Israel while the Palestinians say it is the result of 49 years of Israeli occupation of their lands. Endit