During the past two weeks two vehicular ramming attacks were prevented in Judea and Samaria.
On the night of April 5, 2021, during an IDF operational activity in Bayt Nabala (near Ramallah), a roadblock was erected. A vehicle stopped at the barrier and then suddenly sped towards a group of fighters operating at a distance. The fighters at the roadblock shot at the vehicle (IDF spokesman, April 6, 2021). The Palestinian driving the vehicle was killed and his wife was wounded. The Palestinian media reported he was
Usama Sidki Mansour, 42, from the village of Bidu, northwest of Jerusalem (Wafa, April 6, 2021). The PA foreign ministry strongly condemned the [so-called] “execution” of Usama Mansour, claiming it had occurred at a time when Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was trying to prove the morality of IDF soldiers to the International Criminal