STORY: Israeli soldier killed in truck-ramming in West Bank
SHOOTING TIME: Sept. 11, 2024
DATELINE: Sept. 12, 2024
LENGTH: 00:03:13
LOCATION: Jerusalem
CATEGORY: SOCIETY

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STORYLINE:

An Israeli soldier was killed after being rammed by a semi-trailer truck driven by a Palestinian man in the West Bank on Wednesday, the Israeli military said in a statement.

Video footage on social networks showed the fuel truck from the town of Rafat near the central West Bank's city of Ramallah accelerated toward soldiers stationed outside the Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf near Ramallah and hit one of them.

A 24-year-old soldier named Geri Gideon Hanghal was killed during "operational activity," according to the Israeli military. The military added that the driver was shot by troops and an armed civilian.

The driver was later taken to a hospital, according to a report by Israel's state-owned Kan TV news.

No group has so far assumed responsibility for the incident, which occurred amid Israel's continuous raids across the West Bank and an over-11-month Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Jerusalem.
(XHTV)