Car Ramming Attack in Raanana Leaves 13 Wounded

Raanana, Israel — Israeli police said Monday that a suspected car ramming attack carried out by two Palestinians had left at least 13 people wounded in the central city of Raanana. Meir hospital near Raanana confirmed that one woman had died of her injuries.

"A wounded woman who arrived in a critical condition after having been hit by a vehicle has died of her injuries despite our efforts to save her," the hospital said in a statement.

A police spokesperson later called it a "a multiple car-ramming attack" and said it involved two suspects who "stole vehicles and ran over a number of citizens in different places" in Raanana. They said officers were sweeping the impacted areas "to ensure no further threats."

The national police chief of staff said on Israeli TV that two Palestinian suspects, relatives from the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, had been arrested following the incident in Raanana.

Tension in the West Bank, the much larger of the two Palestinian territories, has soared since Israel launched its offensive against the Hamas rulers of the other, smaller enclave, the Gaza Strip. The war sparked by Hamas' brutal Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel, has left close to 28,000 people dead in Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

Palestinians in the West Bank often hold protests in solidarity with Gaza's embattled population, and clashes with Israeli security forces, who conduct raids frequently in the occupied territory, have been a regular occurrence since the war began.

Some hard-line residents of Israeli settlements in the West Bank have been accused of harassing, attacking and stealing the land of Palestinians in the territory over the last 100 days of war.