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One Suspected Terrorist Injured After Attempting to Commit Car-Ramming Attack Near Hebron
Emergency responders said the attacker was killed at the scene after the vehicle struck a soldier and left him critically wounded.
On Wednesday, a suspected terrorist carried out a car-ramming attack on Route 443 near the Bell Checkpoint, critically wounding an Israeli soldier; security forces at the scene killed the attacker.
Route 443, a major highway connecting Jerusalem to central Israel, has previously been the site of similar violence, including a 2023 attack at the Maccabim checkpoint.
Paramedics Itzik Kara and Netanel Cohen treated a man approximately 35 years old at the scene. "United Hatzalah's dispatch center sent us to the scene of a vehicular ramming attack near Bell Checkpoint," they said.
The victim was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in serious, unstable condition, while Israel Police and other security forces launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Authorities later clarified the involved patrol vehicle was a joint police-IDF unit staffed by a female officer and an IDF soldier, as security forces continue monitoring the strategic highway.