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Two teenagers were injured this Tuesday in a hit-and-run and attempted stabbing at a road crossing in the south of the West Bank, near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, in an act that the Israeli Army calls "terrorist" and in which the aggressor was shot dead at the scene.
One of the injured is a boy of about 15 years old, found semi-conscious and with serious injuries to the head and other extremities, according to a paramedic from the Magen Dadiv Adom emergency service, who said he received medical attention "that saved his life" before being evacuated to the trauma center in the hospital.
Another teenager, 16 years old, was evacuated in moderate condition to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital after also being hit in the head. "Following the initial report of a terrorist attack at the Al Khader (Palestinian village) crossing, security forces neutralized the terrorist who carried out the ramming and attempted stabbing at the scene," a military statement detailed. Israeli authorities label as "terrorists" the attacks perpetrated by Palestinians, the majority against uniformed personnel and Israeli soldiers near settlements in the occupied West Bank or military checkpoints. Soldiers have been deployed in the area and are blocking traffic on Route 60, according to the Israeli Army, preventing entry to the Bethlehem governorate. According to the Palestinian agency Wafa, the Nashash checkpoint has been closed.You may be interested in: Exhumed 9,000 bodies of victims of the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship since 2019
The West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, is experiencing its greatest spiral of violence in the last two decades, and since the Hamas attacks of October 2023, more than a thousand Palestinians have died from Israeli fire (a minority from settler shootings), including civilians and at least 212 children, according to data from the UN agency for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
