An Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly injured on Wednesday night in a Palestinian car-ramming attack on Route 446, near the town of Deir Qaddis in western Samaria, the army said.
“A car-ramming attack was carried out against an IDF force operating in the village of Deir Qaddis in the Ephraim Brigade [area of responsibility],” the military stated.
“The terrorist was neutralized by forces as he tried to escape,” added the IDF. The injured female soldier received medical treatment at the scene.
United Hatzalah first responder Meir Yaari said in a statement shared by the medical rescue group that he was in the area when he was notified about a “serious accident.”
“I arrived at the scene and found an unconscious driver who had crashed his vehicle into rocks,” Yaari said. “While treating the driver, we were told that he had attempted to carry out a ramming attack and was neutralized by gunfire, which caused him to lose control of his vehicle and become seriously injured.”
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) thwarted over a thousand major Palestinian terrorist attacks in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem in 2024, according to the agency’s annual report published this week.
The majority of the 1,040 foiled terror attacks involved firearms (689) and explosive devices (326), with the others being stabbings, car-rammings, suicide bombings and abductions, the agency said.
