IDF says soldier lightly injured in West Bank ramming; assailant in serious condition
Palestinian attacker accelerated vehicle toward troops operating in Dayr Qadis, subsequently tried to flee, but soldiers opened fire and struck him; wounded Israeli treated at scene
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

An IDF soldier was slightly wounded in a car-ramming attack near the central West Bank town of Dayr Qadis Wednesday evening, the military said.
According to the IDF, the Palestinian assailant accelerated his vehicle toward troops operating in the town. The IDF said that as he tried to flee, the soldiers opened fire and struck the suspect.
One servicewoman was lightly injured in the incident, and she was treated at the scene, the army said, while not elaborating on when exactly she was struck. The soldier did not require hospitalization, though.
The assailant was listed in serious condition, according to first responders.
On Tuesday, the Shin Bet released an annual report on its operations in 2024, saying it had foiled 1,040 “significant” terror attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem, including 689 planned shootings, 326 involving explosive devices, 13 stabbings, nine car-rammings, two suicide bombings and one kidnapping.
But it failed to thwart another attack last week when an 83-year-old woman was stabbed and killed in Herzliya. The assailant, a 28-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, had been a Shin Bet informant and was transferred to Israel after his cover was blown, the security agency said.

The victim, Ludmila Lipovsky, a Holocaust survivor, had just left her assisted living complex and was waiting for a ride to a doctor’s appointment at the time of the attack.
Relative to 2023, which saw a years-high surge in terror attacks, the Shin Bet’s Tuesday report showed a 40% drop in the West Bank and Jerusalem this year.
Since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, Israel has largely blocked entry to Israel for Palestinians from the West Bank, disrupting the livelihood of thousands, and carried out large-scale counterterrorism operations there. Troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas, according to the IDF.
During that span, more than 835 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry. The military has said that the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 43 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.