Less than two days after a terrorist shooting injured seven Israelis at a bus stop near the settlement of Ofra on Sunday, Israeli forces operating in Judea and Samaria faced two attempted terrorist attacks on Tuesday, one near Hebron and the other in the Jordan Valley.
A Palestinian assailant tried to ram his car into Israeli forces patrolling near Hebron on Tuesday morning, and was shot and killed, the Israel Police reported.
The security personnel were in the village of Idhna to enforce regulations against the stolen copper trade when a Palestinian driver rammed his car into an Israeli Civil Administration vehicle, then tried to run over a Border Police officer. The forces opened fire, killing the attacker.
No Israeli soldiers were hurt in the incident.
Shortly afterward, Israeli troops deployed to crack down on illegal construction in the village Al-Jiftlik in the northern Jordan Valley were the targets of another attempted car ramming. The forces fired at the offending vehicle and fired shots in the air.
The driver was wounded and evacuated under arrest to receive medical treatment.
On Sunday evening, Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a group of Israelis waiting at a hitchhiking post in Samaria, wounding seven. One of the victims was a pregnant woman, whose baby is now fighting for his life after being delivered early in an emergency cesarean section.
Israeli authorities are still on the hunt for the perpetrators of the attack near Ofra.
