Tel Aviv: Near Tel Aviv, Israeli police said that on Friday, an Arab-Israeli attempted to fire at them before ramming them with his car, prompting them to open fire. An Arab-Israeli city on the outskirts of Tel Aviv and just outside of the occupied West Bank, Kafr Qassem, is where the incident took place.
Since March, when Israel started conducting almost daily raids after a string of deadly attacks against Israelis, violence has increased in the West Bank. The suspect called the police under the pretext of "a violent incident," according to a statement from the police, which led them to Kafr Qassem.
He ran at the police with a gun when they arrived, got in his car, and ran over them, according to the police report. Before the suspect was "neutralised by shooting," three officers suffered injuries. Naim Mahmoud Bedir's uncle Sobhi Bedir claimed that his nephew was blameless. He said, "In Israel, when the police kill a Palestinian, they claim he was a terrorist or plotting an attack.
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According to a statement from his office, Israel's incoming Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu praised the police for "acting professionally and swiftly to eliminate the terrorist... and avert a major attack."
Members of Netanyahu's newly announced coalition government have demanded a harsher crackdown on Palestinians.
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Itamar Ben Gvir of the far-right Jewish Power party, who will likely serve as the new government's national security minister, has repeatedly urged Israeli security personnel to use more force to quell Palestinian unrest.
This year, there have been at least 150 Palestinian fatalities in Israel, the occupied West Bank, and East Jerusalem.
During three days of fighting in August between militants in the Gaza Strip and Israel, another 49 Palestinians perished.
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According to UN statistics, 2022 was the deadliest year since the Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising that lasted from 2000 to 2005.