Israeli troops shoot dead driver of rammed car



JERUSALEM: -- Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian driver in the West bank on Tuesday after he’d rammed his vehicle into three of their colleagues.

In the last year Palestinian attacks have killed 28 Israelis and two visiting US citizens. Israeli forces have killed at least 194 Palestinians.

Tuesday’s incident left one of the three injured soldiers in a life threatening condition.

Background to violence

Factors driving the current violence include Palestinian bitterness over stalled statehood negotiations, the growth of Israeli settlements in the West Bank,increased Jewish access to a disputed Jerusalem shrine and Islamist-led calls for Israel’s destruction.

The pace of what had been almost daily Palestinian attacks since October has infact slowed. Israel puts this down to closer cooperation with Palestinian security forces in the West Bank and more stringent monitoring of social media to identify potential assailants.

Sentenced to life

Elsewhere in Jerusalem an Israeli man (Ben David)whose killing of a Palestinian teenager helped trigger the 2014 Gaza war, was sentenced to life in prison.

Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair was bludgeoned, strangled and burned alive by three Israelis who have now all been sent to jail .

The defendants said Abu Khudair’s murder was a revenge killing for the deaths of three Israeli youths by Hamas militants.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-05-04

The car driver was doing the ramming, it was not his car that was rammed. The way the headline was worded you would conclude the opposite to what actually happened. Of course this was just an honest editorial error that a ten year old could have spotted.

Removed off-topic posts and replies to them.

Apparently, the Palestinian man who was killed came from the refugee camp of Qalandiya. The same place where the pregnant woman and her 16-year old brother was killed at the Ramallah checkpoint by the IDF last week.

There could be a link if it was a relative...

He should have been arrested, instead of executed.

Edited May 5, 201610 yr by Thorgal

Apparently, the Palestinian man who was killed came from the refugee camp of Qalandiya. The same place where the pregnant woman and her 16-year old brother was killed at the Ramallah checkpoint by the IDF last week.

There could be a link if it was a relative...

He should have been arrested, instead of executed.

No information suggests, as far as I am aware, that he was a relative. Speculation.

No information presented on events, yet poster feels confidant the driver could have been arrested. More speculation.

And of course, no reference to the killed Palestinian's actions just prior to being "executed". That would be mixing fact with the above speculations.