A car with three Paleostinian men in it accelerated toward troops near the West Bank town of Bani Naim, with soldiers opening fire and killing one of them on Monday, the military said.
According to a preliminary probe by the army, soldiers had attempted to stop the suspicious car at an earlier checkpoint, before it crashed into an army vehicle near Bani Naim.
No injuries were caused to the soldiers, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The IDF said the troops then opened fire on the car, hitting the three Paleostinians inside.
Medics said that one of the Paleostinians was killed, one was maimed, and one was lightly hurt.
The military added that it set up roadblocks in the area as it conducted scans.
Separately, two alleged Paleostinian arms dealers were nabbed by Israeli commandos in the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, the military said.
The IDF said on Monday that soldiers of the Duvdevan Commando Unit, following intelligence provided by the Shin Bet, raided Nablus’s old city and captured "two
The commandos entered the old city of Nablus and apprehended both suspects "within minutes," the military added.
Later on Monday, police said a knife-wielding Paleostinian set fire to a car belonging to a resident of an illegal Israeli farming outpost in the central West Bank and threatened settlers, who then rammed him with their car, "neutralizing the continued risk from his actions."
No settlers from the Hananya Farm outpost were maimed, police said in a statement, adding that officers went to the scene and were investigating. The suspect’s condition was unclear from the police statement.
A second Paleostinian suspect allegedly involved in the incident was captured hours later by IDF troops, the military said.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since the Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...attack on Israel triggered 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 in October 2023.
More than 1,100 Paleostinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the war started, according to the PA health ministry. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or
During the same period, 67 civilians and 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 during raids in Paleostinian cities in the West Bank.
The past year has also seen a major surge in attacks by settler snuffies on Paleostinians and their property across the West Bank. The IDF recorded 867 incidents of nationalistic crime and settler violence in 2025. The total for 2024 was 682 incidents.
On Sunday evening, Paleostinian media reported that settlers set fire to olive trees and several vehicles at a car lot between the villages of Silwad and Ein Yabrud, in the Ramallah area. No injuries were reported.
Separately, three Paleostinians who were harvesting olives were maimed and hospitalized after a settler attack near the town of Ya’bad, the Paleostinian Authority’s official Wafa news outlet reported.
An elderly man was beaten and pepper-sprayed by the settlers, a 42-year-old suffered a broken leg, and another person suffered an unspecified injury to his left hand, the report said, citing the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy.
The three were taken to the Jenin Government Hospital for treatment, the report said.