Israel
Israeli woman seriously injured in second car-ramming attack within a week
The victim is being treated in hospital for a serious head injury with suspect shot dead after a brief chase
November 29, 2022 12:02
The victim is being treated in hospital for a serious head injury with suspect shot dead after a brief chase
November 29, 2022 12:02An Israeli woman was seriously injured this morning in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank, according to the IDF
The woman, an IDF soldier in her twenties was run over while she was walking on the pavement near the entrance to the settlement of Kohav Yaakov.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service (MDA) said they were treating the woman for a serious head injury at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital.
The suspect was a Palestinian man who was shot following a short manhunt after he attempted to flee the scene. He died soon after from his injuries.
Kan public broadcaster has named the suspected terrorist as 45-year-old Rani Mamoun Faiz Abu Ali, father of five children, from the Palestinian city of Beitunia near Ramallah.
After troops began chasing after him, he reached a road block set up by the police and proceeded to exit the vehicle, when he was shot by the officers in the middle of a busy road.
Early reports suggest the man held an Israeli work permit and was employed at a Rami Levy supermarket branch in the Sha’ar Binyamin industrial zone in the West Bank.
An MDA paramedic said: “We arrived quickly to the scene, the injured woman was laying on the street, close to a roundabout, while conscious and sustaining bruises on her head and upper body,”
"We were told that a car hit her and fled. We quickly brought her on to the ambulance while giving her medical treatment that included stopping the bleeding and medication against the pain, and we evacuated her to an intensive care ambulance, which took her to the hospital in serious and stable condition."
CCTV footage of the incident showed a black SUV making a turn after spotting the victim walking from a parking lot to a pavement. The vehicle rammed into the woman on the pavement, before driving over a patch of grass and onto a highway to flee the scene.
This is the second car-ramming attack of an Israeli who was wearing an IDF uniform within the space of a week.
The first, last Thursday, also captured on CCTV, was against an 18-year-old wearing an Israeli Air Force uniform.