Israeli authorities say a Palestinian driver slammed his truck into pedestrians at a busy checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, wounding three people.
on Thursday, wounding three people in the latest bloodshed in a relentless cycle of violence to roil the region.who stabbed a man in a Jerusalem light-rail station and after Palestinian militants detonated a bomb near a convoy of Israeli troops escorting Jewish worshippers to a holy site in the West Bank, wounding four Israeli troops.
Israeli paramedics said they were treating three people, one critically, in the aftermath of Thursday's attack. According to Israel's Defense Ministry, the driver sped away and was stopped by security guards at a separate checkpoint nearby. His condition was not immediately clear. The checkpoint where the truck rammed the pedestrians occurred is on a major highway leading from central Israel through the West Bank and into Jerusalem and is next to the Israeli city of Modiin. The checkpoint is typically packed with commuters and security guards or soldiers.
The near-nightly raids have fueled tensions in the region and have ushered in some of the worst fighting between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank since the last Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s.
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