The newspaper "Israel Hayom" reported that an Israeli woman was injured in a car-ramming attack near the settlement of "Kiryat Arba," noting that the army is pursuing a vehicle it said was Palestinian, after it fled towards the city of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
For its part, the Hebrew Broadcasting Authority said that "a Palestinian vehicle hit an Israeli woman a short time ago who was standing at the Ha'okfim junction on Route 60 near Hebron."
For its part, the Israeli occupation army said in a statement published via the X platform that its forces rushed to the area after a report of a car-ramming attack, noting that its forces responded by firing, without specifying the targeted party.
He added that "his forces are now carrying out extensive search operations for the perpetrator," and no Palestinian eyewitness testimonies about the incident or statements from official Palestinian sources or media were immediately available.
For its part, Hamas said that "the car-ramming operation north of Hebron comes in the context of our people's legitimate response and anger at what the criminal occupation commits daily, from killings and field executions to raids, demolition of homes and systematic attacks against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank."
The movement added in a statement that "the escalation of resistance operations in the West Bank is a direct result of the state of occupation aggression and attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause through Judaization, settlement, annexation and imposing facts on the ground by force."
She affirmed that “the will of the Palestinian people will not be broken, and resistance will remain the legitimate option in confronting the occupation and its crimes, as long as it continues its aggression and crimes,” calling for “unifying ranks and strengthening resistance in all fields, as our people always prove that they are capable of creating tools for confrontation and defending their rights, no matter how great the sacrifices.”
The operation comes at a time when the West Bank is witnessing an unprecedented escalation in attacks by the occupation army and Israeli settlers against Palestinians, their property and livelihoods.
The attacks by the Israeli army and settlers together have led to the martyrdom of at least 1,085 Palestinians, the injury of more than 10,000 others, as well as the arrest of more than 21,000 Palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza began on October 8, 2023, and stopped two years later under a ceasefire agreement, after leaving more than 70,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 170,000 wounded, most of them children and women, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
