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| By: Efrat Weiss |
| Published: March 1, 2007 |
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A 55-year-old Israeli suffering from gunshot wounds to the chest arrived at an IDF checkpoint in the seam line area Thursday. The man said he was hit by gunshots from a passing vehicle near the West Bank town of Qalqilya.
The man said that while driving from Qalqilya, where he visited a plant nursery, in the direction of the checkpoint, a white Subaru pickup truck overtook his car and two men, armed with pistols, fired at him.
Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated the man, who was lightly injured, to the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.
Security officials estimate that the attack was terror-related. The IDF is currently searching for the perpetrators, who are believed to have escaped to Qalqilya.
Thursday's incident is the second this week in which an Israeli falls victim to a violent attack in the West Bank. On Sunday evening the body of Erez Levanon from the settlement of Bat Ayin was found in a valley near the Palestinian village of Beit Omar, north of Hebron.
Levanon was stabbed to death not far from his vehicle. On Monday, security forces arrested two Palestinians who admitted to killing him.
Reprinted with permission from Ynetnews. |
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