Three Border Police officers, 5 year old wounded in two attacks

A terrorist attempts to run over Border Police officers in Gush Etzion and lightly wounds three of them; the attacker is shot dead; stone-throwers nearby attack a car carrying a 5 year old boy, who is lightly wounded.

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Three Border Police officers were lightly wounded in a vehicular attack outside the Palestinian town of Beit Ummar, northwest of Hebron, on Sunday afternoon. Shortly beforehand, a 5-year-old boy was lightly wounded from window fragments from a stone-throwing incident at a T-intersection nearby Maaleh Amos, also in Gush Etzion.
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The scene of the vehicular attack 
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The wounded police officers, all in their 30s, were injured in their lower bodies, and they were taken to Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center after being treated at the scene by Magen David Adom. The terrorist, 23-year-old Khaled Ikhalil from Beit Ummar, was shot dead by other Border Police officers present.
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The car used in the vehicular attack (Photo: Israel Police)
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The attack took place nearby the scene of a shooting attack that took place on Saturday evening on Highway 60. Nobody was injured in that attack.
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The where the 5 year old was injured (Photo: Hatzalah Yehuda & Shomron Spokesman)
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The where the 5 year old was injured (Photo: Hatzalah Yehuda & Shomron Spokesman)
This is the fifth terrorist attack in the West Bank since Friday evening.
The wounded child was taken to Hadassah Medical Center in the capital. The stone-throwing took place outside the Arab town of Tekoa.

First published: 17:08, 10.30.16

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