Car-ramming attack on the Tunnels Road: Two teenagers were hit by a vehicle in a car-ramming attack on Tuesday afternoon at the Al-Khader Junction, on the Tunnels Road in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem. According to reports, the terrorist was neutralized by gunfire.
The terrorist, who had sped toward the point where they were standing on the side of the road, got out of the vehicle with a knife and was neutralized by gunfire from Lt. Col. (res.) Hezi Nechama, who was on his way to visit his son and was carrying a gun. One of the teenagers, 15, was seriously injured and taken to Shaare Zedek Hospital in the city with injuries to his limbs and head, the other, 16, was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in moderate condition.
Nehama told Ynet: "I was passing an intersection and about 20 meters away I heard a boom. I got out of the car and tried to figure out if it was an accident. They shouted: 'He has a knife!' I saw him running toward me, I shouted at him 'Stop!' - and he didn't stop. I shot at his legs, and he continued to run amok. I kept shouting 'Stop!' and he didn't stop. So I shot at the center of his body, and he fell."
The junction is near the Tunnel Road checkpoint by the southern entrance to the capital. The attacker was a resident of Beit Fajjar, about 10 kilometers from Bethlehem and not far from the scene of the attack. Entrances to and exits from nearby villages were blocked.
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Car-ramming attack at Al-Khader junction in Gush Etzion
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The IDF said in a statement: “An assailant who carried out a ramming attack and attempted stabbings at the site was neutralized. IDF forces are setting up roadblocks, surrounding villages and conducting sweeps in the area.”
The report of the attack was received at the 101 hotline of Magen David Adom in the Jerusalem area, about injured people from a ramming attack near the Al-Khader Junction. The organization's medics and paramedics are providing medical treatment to the injured at the scene.
In an attack two days ago at the Jit junction near the Kedumim settlement in the West Bank, Staff Sgt. Inbar Avraham Kav, 20, who had been critically wounded, was killed.
On Sept. 18, an attack at the Allenby crossing saw a Jordanian attacker who had been driving an aid truck to the Gaza Strip exit the vehicle and fatally shoot and stab two soldiers: Lt. Col. (res.) Yitzhak Harosh and Staff Sgt. Oran Hershko of the Tavor Brigade.
First published: 14:37, 09.30.25