An Israeli man was lightly injured on Thursday night when the car he was in was hit by a Molotov cocktail on Route 443 in the West Bank, Magen David Adom emergency services reported.
The firebomb failed to ignite and the driver of the vehicle was able to continue driving to a nearby IDF checkpoint.
MDA paramedics treated a man, 65, who was lightly burned on the neck from gasoline that splashed on him when the Molotov cocktail hit the car. It was not immediately clear if the injured man was the driver of the vehicle.
He was being treated at the scene.
On Monday evening, 18-year-old IDF soldier Ziv Mizrahi was fatally stabbed in an attack at a gas station also on Route 443, a main artery that carries traffic between Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv area and that dips into the West Bank along part of its route.
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Two others were hurt in the attack. One of the wounded, an Israeli woman, was lightly hurt when her car was hit by gunfire from security forces. The other, a female Israeli soldier in her 20s, was lightly injured in the stabbing and evacuated to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for treatment.
The Palestinian assailant was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in the area.
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