Police Say West Bank Farm Resident Shot and Neutralized Palestinian Suspect

Israel Police said on Saturday that a Palestinian was neutralized by a resident of a farm in the Binyamin area of the West Bank after he tried to attack a farm resident with a large stone. The suspect was wounded moderately and taken for medical treatment. Police from the Judea and Samaria District opened an investigation.

According to the police account, the farm owner reported that a Palestinian arrived holding a stone and attempted to hurt one of the residents. The civilian fired his personal weapon, and police said the threat was stopped. Officers from the Binyamin station, together with IDF soldiers called to the scene by the farm owners, began gathering evidence and taking statements from those involved.

An initial inquiry found that the Palestinian had come to the farm armed in advance with a large stone, behaved suspiciously and violently, shouted threats at a resident who approached to question him, and then tried to attack with the stone. The resident said he felt threatened and fired at the attacker.

Separately, Palestinian reports said four Palestinians, including one seriously injured, were hurt overnight in violence by Jewish assailants in the village of Deir Abu Mishal, northwest of Ramallah. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the attackers used stones, clubs and sharp objects in the southern part of the village. The report said the violence followed the earlier dismantling by Palestinians of an outpost settlers had erected on village land, an outpost the army had already removed days earlier under a court order. After it was rebuilt, villagers dismantled it again, clashes broke out, and the IDF used tear gas to disperse them. Wafa later said about 25 to 30 assailants came to the village and attacked residents.