Israeli forces kill Palestinian after car ramming in West Bank: Medics

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Friday, medics said, after military officials alleged he carried out a car ramming.

The army said soldiers “neutralized” the driver who rammed the car into people near a military post south of the city of Hebron.

The Magen David Adom paramedic service said that it treated one person in moderate condition and three others who were lightly wounded.

The Palestinian health ministry named the alleged assailant shot by Israeli forces as Amro Abu Hussein.

The West Bank has been under military occupation since the 1967 Six-Day war, with violence in the Palestinian territory escalating since the outbreak of fighting between Israel and Gaza rulers Hamas nearly three months ago.

More than 520 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank this year by Israeli security forces and settlers, according to a health ministry toll, at least 314 of them since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.