Four Israeli soldiers injured in a car crash south of Tel Aviv

15 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least four Israeli soldiers were injured, two of them seriously, in a car attack carried out on Sunday by a Palestinian near a military base in the town of Tzrifin, south of Tel Aviv.

The Israeli army said the incident took place “early today” and that police officers “went to the scene, attempted to establish contact and neutralised the terrorist”, aged 27. All the wounded soldiers have been taken to hospital for medical treatment and their families have been informed accordingly.

The Magen David Adom (Red Star of David) emergency service said that when paramedics arrived at the scene, they saw a vehicle that had hit several pedestrians waiting at a bus stop. The two seriously injured were men in their 20s, and one of them was unconscious on arrival.

Hamas has said that this attack “is a natural response to the brutal war of extermination in Gaza and the campaigns of intimidation, oppression and terrorism in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem,” according to a statement reported by the Palestinian newspaper ‘Filastín’, which is linked to the group.

“We mourn the martyr Muhammad Shehab, 27, originally from the village of Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem, who carried out the heroic operation, and we call on our revolutionary youth in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem to continue on the path of victory for our people and our blood, until the criminal aggression ends,” he added.

Meanwhile, Border Police have arrested a 37-year-old Palestinian woman armed with a knife at the entrance to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, known as the Ibrahim Mosque, in the West Bank city of Hebron. The detainee is allegedly married to a member of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) who is currently imprisoned by Israeli authorities, The Times of Israel has learned.