RAMALLAH: Israeli troops killed a Palestinian during a raid in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said, and the army said soldiers had shot at suspected militants who fled arrest.

The army said troops operating in Aqabat Jabr, a refugee camp near the city of Jericho, detained a suspected militant and opened fire on two people who tried to escape the area.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted the governor of Jericho as saying that a man was fatally shot and three others wounded by the troops.

The governor said the Israeli army had not handed over the man’s body to his family.

In a separate incident, at least five people were injured when a car rammed into them in central Jerusalem on Monday, in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “terrorist attack”.

The Magen David Adom emergency service said the injured included a 70-year-old man who was left in a “serious condition”, as well as a 30-year-old woman.

Jord­anian lawmaker detai­ned

Meanwhile, Israel has detained a Jordanian lawmaker on suspicion of smuggling arms and gold into the West Bank and Amman is working to secure his release, the kingdom’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Imad al Adwan, a member of parliament who had crossed a main border crossing along the Jordan River earlier on Sunday by car, was being held and interrogated by Israeli authorities, Sinan al Majali, a Jordanian foreign ministry spokesperson said in a statement to state media.

Published in Dawn, April 25th, 2023