Palestinian in car ramming shot by Israel forces: police

JERUSALEM: A Palestinian was shot by Israeli security forces after ramming his car into a vehicle for undercover policemen in the occupied West Bank, police said Thursday.
Police were carrying out arrests overnight in the Al-Amari refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah when the Palestinian “attempted to run over the officers” and hit the armoured police car, a statement said.
The officers saw the driver holding a knife and shot him. Police said he was a Palestinian from Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Prisoner Club, a Ramallah-based NGO, identified the suspected assailant as Firas al-Halaq, 25, from Beit Hanina.
There were no Israeli casualties in the incident.
A spokesman for the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem said the suspect was in serious condition.