The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service says the Israeli wounded during a shooting in the West Bank was injured from fighting with the shooter, not from a gunshot wound.
The organization says that in the attack this morning, a gunman from the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir shot a number of times at an Israeli shepherd at the outpost of Gal Yosef.
The shooter then fought with the Israeli man, who was lightly wounded in his head in that scuffle. He has been brought to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, the organization says.
Magen David Adom paramedic Shaul Malka says that first responders found the man, in his 20s, fully conscious. The man told them he sustained an injury to his head.
Medics provided him with first aid on site.
“The incident could have ended differently,” Malka says.
A police spokesman tells The Times of Israel that the IDF is managing the situation as it develops, “as with any operational incident in Judea and Samaria,” the biblical name for the West Bank.
Police in the West Bank District, alongside the Shin Bet, are set to open an investigation later on, but have not yet announced one at this point.
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