An Israeli security guard employed protecting a fuel truck was seriously wounded in a shooting attack on a vehicle near the Israeli community of Nili in Samaria, west of the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the armed wing of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, claimed credit for the shooting, according to Palestinian news agency reports. The guard was shot by Palestinian gunmen from a passing car after he emerged from a restroom at a joint Palestinian-Israeli fuel exchange depot 600 meters from the Naalin roadblock, near the separation barrier.
The guard was taken in a car to the Israeli checkpoint with two serious head wounds and leg wounds. He was transferred there to an ambulance and evacuated to Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv.
The perpetrators fled the scene. Israel Defense Forces troops and police were pursuing them.
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