Five IDF soldiers were hurt in a suspected car-ramming attack in the Jordan Valley region of the West Bank, the IDF said on Sunday.
Magen David Adom ambulance service reported that one of the soldiers suffered moderate injuries and the rest sustained light injuries when the vehicle slammed into them while they were waiting for a bus at a busy junction.
Police standoff with hitting driver
They were taken to Shaare Zedek and Hadassah medical centers in Jerusalem.
The wayward driver, who was suspected to be a Palestinian terrorist, was critically injured by police.
A preliminary military investigation of the incident identified the suspect as Barkat Odeh, 49. He arrived at Nabi Musa Junction on the slopes between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea driving a car with a Palestinian license plate.
Odeh allegedly first rammed a group of soldiers that was standing at a bus stop there and then continued driving and plowed into another bus stop at Almog Junction, injuring others.
The suspected attack comes less than 24 hours after a Hamas-affiliated terrorist carried out a fatal shooting attack in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, killing one Israeli and wounding four others.
First published: 15:01, 10.30.22