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Israel’s subject said connected Sunday (December 7, 2025) that its forces killed 2 men successful the occupied West Bank aft what it described arsenic an attempted ramming attack, with the Palestinian Authority identifying the deceased arsenic a 17- and 55-year-old.
The Ramallah-based wellness ministry named the 2 victims arsenic Ahmad Khalil Al-Rajabi, 17, and Ziad Jabara Abu Dawoud, 55, aft the incidental connected Saturday (December 6) nighttime successful the Bab al-Zawiya country successful the metropolis of Hebron.
The older antheral was a sanitation worker, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
The Israeli service said the shooting took spot aft an attempted ramming onslaught against its troops stationed astatine a checkpoint.
“A violent accelerated toward (Israeli) soldiers during an operational enactment astatine a information checkpoint successful Hebron. The soldiers responded by firing astatine the violent successful the conveyance and helium was eliminated,” the service told AFP.
The subject added that a 2nd “uninvolved person” was deed but did not supply further information.
Israel’s service vigor said that according to a preliminary investigation, the “uninvolved” unfortunate was the sanitation worker, who was travelling successful a antithetic conveyance than the 1 utilized for the attempted attack.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967, and unit successful the territory has soared since Hamas’s October 2023 onslaught connected Israel triggered the Gaza war.
It has not ceased contempt the fragile truce betwixt Israel and Hamas that came into effect successful October.
Israeli troops oregon settlers person killed much than 1,000 Palestinians, galore of them militants, but besides scores of civilians, successful the West Bank since the commencement of the Gaza war, according to an AFP tally based connected Palestinian wellness ministry figures.
At slightest 44 Israelis, including some soldiers and civilians, person been killed successful Palestinian attacks oregon Israeli subject operations, according to authoritative Israeli figures.
