IDF says it detained Israelis who rammed Palestinian with their car in Nablus overnight

The IDF has detained Israeli citizens who rammed a Palestinian with their car and fled the vehicle in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the northern West Bank overnight, the army says.

The Palestinian was wounded and taken to a hospital, the military says. The Israelis’ vehicle will be handed over by Palestinian security forces, according to the military. It adds that the Israelis entered Nablus deliberately and illegally.

هروب مستوطنين بعد انقلاب مركبتهم عقب دهس شاب فلسطيني في شارع عمّان شرق نابلس. pic.twitter.com/cKxsiFUMhJ

— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) December 19, 2025

According to religious news site Arutz Sheva, the Israelis are Breslev Hasidim from the extremist Berland sect who were making a pilgrimage to the site traditionally identified as Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus.

Palestinian media identifies the wounded Palestinian as a young man and says he was run over on eastern Nablus’s Amman Street.

In security camera footage published by Palestinian media, with a timestamp shortly past 2:20 a.m., the young man can be seen running down the road when a large white car zooms toward him, causing him to swerve right, where a silver car runs into him and sends him flying. A third car pulls up and people get out to help him.

#متابعة: مستوطن يتسلل بمركبته إلى نابلس ويدهس شاباً في شارع عمان pic.twitter.com/Mu75ULD7B2

— فلسطين بوست (@PalpostN) December 19, 2025

Further footage published by Palestinian media shows an overturned vehicle with an Israeli license plate, identified as the silver car from the first video, as men in Hasidic garb flee the scene.

According to WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, the young man who was run over suffered fractures in his legs.