00:00 Israeli police said that a suspected car-ramming attack injured at least 13 people in the central
00:11 city of Ranana.
00:13 Israeli media outlet said one woman injured in the attack had died of wounds at a local
00:18 hospital but the fatality was not immediately confirmed by authorities.
00:23 A suspect in a stolen vehicle ran over a number of people injuring 13, the force said in a
00:28 statement with medics reporting one of them was in critical condition.
00:34 This was apparently a suspected terrorist ramming attack, the police said in the statement.
00:39 The National Police Chief of Staff said on Israeli TV that two Palestinian suspects,
00:43 relatives from the town Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, had been arrested following the
00:49 incident in Ranana.
00:51 Police earlier said a suspect was taken into custody and the motive was being investigated.
00:56 Following an unusual incident currently in Ranana, police forces are on the scene and
01:01 the circumstances of the incident are being investigated, Israel Police said in a statement.
01:06 The public is asked to be vigilant and obey the police officers' instructions.
01:11 Tensions in the West Bank, the much larger of the two Palestinian territories, has soared
01:15 since Israel launched its offensive against the Hamas rulers of the other, smaller enclave,
01:20 the Gaza Strip.
01:21 The war sparked by Hamas' brutal October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel has left close
01:26 to 28,000 people dead in Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
01:33 Palestinians in the West Bank often hold protests in solidarity with Gaza's embattled population
01:37 and clashes with Israeli security forces, who conduct raids frequently in the occupied
01:42 territory, have been a regular occurrence since the war began.
01:45 Some hardline residents of Israeli settlements in the West Bank have been accused of harassing,
01:50 attacking and stealing the land of Palestinians in the territory over the last 100 days of
01:55 war.
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