Heading into Rosh Hashanah and the holiday season, the IDF and police are on high alert due to a rise in shooting attacks by Palestinian gunmen against the IDF and Israeli civilians.
On Saturday, a Palestinian man was shot dead after ramming his car into a police vehicle in the northern West Bank, near Nablus. According to the IDF, troops and police “identified a suspicious vehicle that accelerated toward them and tried to run them over” near the settlement of Havat Gilad.
“An IDF soldier opened fire at the vehicle. The terrorist was neutralized,” the military added.
On Friday, the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced that they had solved a series of shooting attacks in the West Bank and arrested a number of Palestinians belonging to a cell directed by Hamas.
Additional battalions will be sent to other parts of the West Bank during the holidays to prevent attacks.
Security forces have increased their level of alertness due to the increased violence. There have been close to 10 attacks this past week, with at least two shooting attacks in the northern West Bank early Thursday morning near the settlement of Har Bracha. Another shooting attack against the settlement took place early Friday morning, damaging a home.
As security forces increase their alert level, an extra battalion of Golani forces will be immediately deployed to the northern West Bank in the face of a rise in shooting attacks in the area by Palestinian gunmen.
Additional battalions will be sent to other parts of the West Bank during the holidays to prevent attacks.
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