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The scene of a car-ramming attack at Maccabim checkpoint in the West Bank, September 23, 2026. (Photo courtesy United Hatzalah)
Palestinian Authority/Gaza, September 23, 2026
IDF soldier seriously hurt in car-ramming attack in West Bank
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An Israel Defense Forces soldier was seriously injured in a car-ramming attack at the Maccabim Junction in the West Bank on Wednesday.
The assailant accelerated toward a police cruiser stationed at a checkpoint on Route 433, running over a soldier who was operating alongside a cop, police said.
The IDF said troops operating at the scene shot dead the assailant who carried out the ramming. He was identified by Israeli security officials as Mahmoud Mohammad Sliman, 29, from the nearby village of Beit Ur al-Tahta.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said its medics treated the soldier, who was unconscious after he was hit. The soldier was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem in serious condition, medical officials said.
The ramming came days after father of six Netanel Shukrun was shot and killed in a terror attack at a natural spring near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf, also known as Halamish.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war.
Sixty-seven civilians and Israeli security personnel have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the Israeli security forces were killed in clashes during raids in Palestinian cities in the West Bank...
Two Palestinians charged for allegedly planning to kill Ben Gvir
Separately, military prosecutors indicted two Palestinians from the Nablus area in the northern West Bank for allegedly planning to carry out “a series of terror attacks” against Israeli civilians and troops, including abducting soldiers and assassinating National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, police and the Shin Bet said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
The suspects allegedly began “advancing ‘military’ activity” in late 2023, including recruiting other operatives, holding shooting training, discussing attack plans and stocking up on assault rifles and ammunition, the statement said.
The suspects made up their minds to kill Ben Gvir in 2024, the statement added.
After they saw a video of Ben Gvir arriving at the scene of a terror attack, one of the suspects allegedly suggested that the pair carry out their own attack to lure Ben Gvir to the scene and kill him.
The same suspect later “suggested using an explosive drone for the assassination, and even tried buying drone parts from China” to that end, the statement said.
In tandem, the suspects also allegedly planned to carry out car-bomb and drone attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, and also plotted mass shootings and the abduction of a soldier.
The statement did not identify the suspects or specify when they were arrested. It said their detention has been extended periodically until the indictment and that they remain in custody until the end of the legal proceedings.
Ben Gvir said in his own statement that the assassination plot in the indictment is the 11th against him...
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