Two Israeli youngsters had been injured, one severely, in a car-ramming terror assault on the al-Khader Junction within the West Financial institution, simply south of Jerusalem, on Tuesday, in keeping with Israeli authorities.
The assailant, a Palestinian from the close by city of Bayt Fajar, crashed his car into pedestrians ready on the facet of the Route 60 freeway earlier than getting out and making an attempt a stabbing, the police, army, and safety officers stated.
He was then shot useless by a senior reservist officer, who occurred to be passing by the realm.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service stated it took two victims of the assault to Shaare Zedek Medical Heart within the capital, a 15-year-old in moderate-to-serious situation and a 16-year-old in reasonable situation.
Each sustained accidents to their heads and extremities, MDA stated.
The incident was initially reported as a taking pictures as a result of gunfire on the attacker.
Police and rescue personnel on the scene of a car-ramming terror assault the place two teenagers had been injured, on a West Financial institution freeway close to Jerusalem. September 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Col. (res.) Hezi Nehama, who was not on energetic reserve obligation, handed by the scene because the assault was carried out.
He informed Hebrew media that he heard a automobile crash into the facet of the highway, and stopped his personal car, pondering it was an accident. However folks on the junction shouted that the assailant had a knife, Nehama stated.
The colonel stated the terrorist ran towards him, and he initially opened fireplace on his legs, shouting at him to cease.
“I saved shouting ‘cease!’ and he didn’t cease. So I fired on the middle of his physique, and he fell,” Nehama was quoted as saying by Ynet information.
The Israel Protection Forces stated it was blocking roads, encircling Palestinian cities within the space, and finishing up scans following the assault.
Police, IDF, and rescue personnel on the scene of a car-ramming terror assault the place two teenagers had been injured, on a West Financial institution freeway close to Jerusalem. September 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The junction has been the scene of earlier assaults. In December 2024, a younger boy was fatally shot and a number of other folks had been wounded in a terror attack concentrating on a Jerusalem-bound bus within the space.
On Sunday, an Israeli soldier was killed after being hit by gunfire throughout what the army stated was a car-ramming attack within the northern West Financial institution.
Violence has risen within the West Financial institution because the Gaza conflict began on October 7, 2023, when 1000’s of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 folks and take 251 hostages.
Since then, 62 folks, together with Israeli safety personnel, have been killed in terror assaults in Israel and the West Financial institution.
One other eight members of the safety forces had been killed in clashes with terror operatives within the West Financial institution, amid a serious counterterrorism offensive that has been accompanied by sharp restrictions on Palestinian motion.
