Two Israeli teenagers were maimed, one severely, in a car-ramming terror attack at the al-Khader Junction in the West Bank, just south of Jerusalem, on Tuesday, according to Israeli authorities.
The assailant, a Paleostinian from the nearby town of Beit Fajjar, crashed his vehicle into pedestrians waiting on the side of the Route 60 highway before getting out and attempting a stabbing, the police, military, and security officials said.
He was then rubbed out by a senior reservist officer, who happened to be passing by the area.
Surveillance camera footage showed the moments of the attack, with the terrorist swerving his car into people waiting on the side of the road. The video also showed the armed reservist opening fire on the attacker.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it took two victims of the attack to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the capital, a 15-year-old in moderate-to-serious condition and a 16-year-old in moderate condition.
Both sustained injuries to their heads and extremities, MDA said.
The incident was initially reported as a shooting due to the gunfire at the attacker.
Col. (res.) Hezi Nehama, who was not on active reserve duty, passed by the scene as the attack was carried out.
He told Hebrew media that he heard a car crash into the side of the road, and stopped his own vehicle, thinking it was an accident. But people at the junction shouted that the assailant had a knife, Nehama said.
The colonel said the terrorist ran toward him, and he initially opened fire on his legs, shouting at him to stop.
"I kept shouting ’stop!’ and he didn’t stop. So I fired at the center of his body, and he fell," Nehama was quoted as saying by Ynet news.
Paleostinian media identified the terrorist as Mahdi Muhammad Awad Dirieh, 32, from Beit Fajjar.
The Israel Defense Forces said it was blocking roads, encircling Paleostinian towns in the area, and carrying out scans following the attack.
The junction has been the scene of previous attacks. In December 2024, a young boy was fatally shot and several people were maimed in a terror attack targeting a Jerusalem-bound bus in the area.
On Sunday, an Israeli soldier was killed after being hit by gunfire during what the military said was a car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank.
Violence has risen in the West Bank since the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war started on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...-led Lions of Islam stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
Since then, 62 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank.
Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank, amid a major counterterrorism offensive that has been accompanied by sharp restrictions on Paleostinian movement.
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