Police arrested a suspect in connection with yesterday’s car-ramming incident in the southern West Bank.
On Monday morning, a Palestinian man driving a suspected stolen vehicle lightly wounded an Israeli police officer at the ad-Dhahiriya Junction, while trying to flee from law enforcement during a police operation in the area.
Believing the car to be stolen, police in the Yasam patrol unit reportedly signaled for the driver to stop, but he refused and fled the scene. During his escape, the suspect struck one of the officers.
Police have not classified the incident as a terror attack.
Aided by Shin Bet intelligence, West Bank police arrested the suspect later that day after launching a large-scale manhunt in the area.
Officers detained him for questioning at the Hebron police station and confiscated the stolen vehicle, a police spokesman says.
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