Israeli military accused Habis Abdel Hafeez Rayan, 54, of working over an Israeli soldier at Beit Sira checkpoint.
Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man within the occupied West Financial institution, the Palestinian well being ministry has stated.
The person, named as Habis Abdel Hafeez Rayan, aged 54, was accused by the Israeli military of finishing up a automobile ramming and stabbing assault on an Israeli soldier at a army checkpoint close to a Jewish settlement.
“The assailant obtained out of his automobile with an axe to assault the officer, who fired on the attacker and neutralised him,” the military stated. “The officer was critically injured and brought to hospital.”
In keeping with witnesses, Israeli troopers opened fireplace on Rayan.
Israeli military radio stated the soldier was critically injured and brought to Shaare Zedek Medical Middle in Jerusalem.
Rayan, who’s from the village of Beit Duqqu northwest of Jerusalem, has a son, Asem, imprisoned in an Israeli jail.
Israel has carried out close to every day raids on Palestinian cities and villages throughout the West Financial institution, which it has illegally occupied since 1967, since March, with dozens of Palestinians killed.
The assault got here as early outcomes from Tuesday’s basic elections in Israel gave a slender result in veteran right-winger, and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the head of an alliance with non secular events and the far proper.