Israeli forces on Monday shot and killed two young Palestinians who carried out a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank, injuring a soldier and a policeman, police and the army said. The army said security forces fired at three assailants, "neutralising two of them and lightly injuring a third", while police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said two of the Palestinians were killed.
"Assailants ran over a number of soldiers who had stopped at the side of the road on their way out of the village" of Kafr Nama, northwest of Ramallah, a military statement said.
"An (army) officer was severely injured and a border police soldier was lightly injured as a result," the army said.
Rosenfeld said that the policeman injured in the pre-dawn attack was subsequently released from hospital.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised soldiers for having swiftly "eliminated" the Palestinians and vowed to fast-track the punitive demolitions of their homes.
"I have ordered that the demolitions of these homes be speeded up," he said. "We are determined to continue our vigorous struggle against the murderers and against terrorism everywhere."