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Two injured in Samaria car-ramming attack

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the attack.

The Hashmonaim Crossing near Modi'in Illit, the largest Israeli city in Judea and Samaria, Oct. 8, 2015. Photo by Eddie Gerald/Getty Images.
The Hashmonaim Crossing near Modi’in Illit, the largest Israeli city in Judea and Samaria, Oct. 8, 2015. Photo by Eddie Gerald/Getty Images.

Two Israelis were lightly injured on Wednesday night in a terrorist car-ramming attack outside the Arab village of Dayr Qadis, near Modi’in in the Binyamin region of western Samaria, according to initial reports.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that it received a report of “a car-ramming attack near Dayr Qadis in the Ephraim Regional Brigade.”

According to Ynet, the terrorist ramming took place at the Hashmonaim Crossing near Modi’in Illit, the largest Israeli city in Judea and Samaria.

The terrorist was said to have escaped, and troops launched a manhunt.

On Tuesday, a Palestinian terrorist tried to stab IDF soldiers outside the Arab town of Deir Sharaf, near Nablus in Samaria. No injuries were reported in the terrorist incident.

The day prior, two Israeli soldiers were lightly and moderately injured in a car-ramming attack at a military checkpoint near Bethlehem in Judea. Two terrorists fled the scene but surrendered to Israeli security forces following a manhunt in the Bethlehem area.

On Nov. 6, two Israelis were lightly injured in a combined car-ramming and stabbing attack at a bus stop near the town of Shiloh in southern Samaria. The terrorist was killed on the scene by an armed civilian.

In the first six months of 2024, Judea and Samaria saw more than 500 Arab terrorist attacks each month on average, according to data made public by Hatzalah Judea and Samaria (Rescuers Without Borders).

During that period, first responders recorded 3,272 acts of terrorism in the region, including 1,868 cases of rock-throwing, 456 attacks with Molotov cocktails, 299 explosive charges and 109 shootings.

Terrorists murdered 14 people and wounded more than 155 others in Judea and Samaria between January and July, the rescue group said.

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