JERICHO, Palestinian Territories: Israelis on Sunday shot dead a Palestinian who, according to the army and medics, had rammed his car into soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
The incident near the city of Jericho comes amid mounting violence across Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
“An assailant accelerated his vehicle toward IDF (Israeli army) soldiers who were at a bus station adjacent to the Nabi Musa Junction,” the army said, before he continued and drove at other soldiers nearby.
“A police officer and a civilian who were at the scene responded with live fire toward the assailant and neutralized him,” and soldiers had also fired at the driver, an army statement said.
An army spokeswoman confirmed to AFP that the driver was killed.
An AFP journalist at the scene saw soldiers surrounding a damaged white car beside a bus stop, which was cornered off with red tape.
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency response service said its medics treated five people who were moderately or lightly wounded.
Tourists frequently pass by the area en route to the ancient city of Jericho or the Dead Sea.
The attack comes a day after a Palestinian assailant killed an Israeli in the flashpoint city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, before being shot dead.
Sunday’s incident brings to 29 the number of Palestinians killed across east Jerusalem and the West Bank this month. Three Israelis have been shot dead over the same period.
Much of the violence has been centered around the northern West Bank, where Israeli forces have launched near daily raids.
Israelis kill Palestinian after alleged car ramming
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Israelis kill Palestinian after alleged car ramming
- Israeli army spokeswoman: ‘An assailant accelerated his vehicle toward IDF (Israeli army) soldiers who were at a bus station adjacent to the Nabi Musa Junction’
- The attack comes a day after a Palestinian assailant killed an Israeli in the flashpoint city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, before being shot dead
UN Palestinian refugee agency says demolished HQ set on fire
- UNRWA described the blaze as part of an “ongoing attempt to dismantle the status of Palestine Refugees”
- Its compound in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem has been empty of staff since January 2025
JERUSALEM: The United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday that its partially demolished headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem was set on fire.
The agency, UNRWA, did not offer details on the cause of the incident at their premises, which Israeli authorities seized and began dismantling last week after banning the organization from operating in the country in 2025.
“After having been stormed and demolished by the Israeli authorities, the UNRWA Headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem has now been set on fire,” the agency said in a statement.
It described the blaze as part of an “ongoing attempt to dismantle the status of Palestine Refugees.”
The fire and rescue service said early Sunday that it had responded to a call at the facility, where it was working to “extinguish the blaze and prevent it from spreading,” also without offering a cause.
The UN had slammed last week’s seizure and demolitions, and UNRWA insisted that its property remained protected by the privileges and immunities of the UN, a view it repeated on Sunday.
“Like any UN Member State anywhere in the world, without exception, Israel is legally obliged to protect and respect UN facilities,” UNRWA spokesman Jonathan Fowler told AFP on Sunday.
UNRWA was created specifically for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced during the creation of Israel in 1948, and provides refugee status registration and health and education services.
Its compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has been empty of staff since January 2025, when the law banning its operations took effect.
Israel accuses UNRWA of providing cover for Hamas militants, and a series of investigations found “neutrality-related issues” at the agency but held that Israel had not provided conclusive evidence.
UNRWA still operates in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
