Suspected terror attack in West Bank: Israeli in serious condition after being shot
Man shot while standing at junction by terrorist in passing vehicle; in separate incident IDF kills rioting Palestinian.
By JPOST.COM STAFFMDA on the scene 370(photo credit: Courtesy MDA)
A man was shot while standing at a road junction in the West Bank early Tuesday morning by a gunman in a passing vehicle, according to a spokesperson for the IDF.Magen David Adom paramedics treated the man who suffered a gun shot to the lower body at the Rechalim Junction near the West Bank city of Nablus.The 25-year-old man, whose injuries were defined as serious, was being evacuated to The Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus.The IDF was sweeping the area for the suspect. In a separate incident that occurred late on Monday, a Palestinian man who was part of a group that was throwing fire-bombs during a riot was killed by IDF soldiers in the West Bank town of al-Ram, which is near Ramallah. The deceased is Mahmoud Shawamreh, 21, of al-Ram, according to AFP.The IDF said its troops responded to a violent riot in the town in which the demonstrators set tires on fire and threw fire-bombs at the IDF soldiers.The soldiers fired warning shots and fired at the lower extremities of the rioters. During this IDF response Shawamreh was killed, the IDF confirmed.A military police investigation into the death will be opened, a source said.
