Though the motives weren’t immediately clear, the incidents were the latest in a series of vehicles striking pedestrians in Israel and the West Bank as the long-taut tensions between Israelis and Palestinians worsened in recent months, agitated in part by killings and a seven-week Israeli-Gaza conflict earlier this year.
They also came amid days of outrage and clashes in Jerusalem over the status of one of the holiest sites in Judaism and Islam — the Temple Mount, known by Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary.
The man who surrendered Thursday said he was the driver who rammed into an Israeli military post Wednesday near Al-Aroub in the West Bank, injuring three Israeli soldiers, the Israeli military said. The driver fled after the incident.
The injured soldiers were taken to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital. All three are in moderate condition, said Dr. Asher Salmon, the hospital’s deputy head. Earlier, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said one was in critical condition.
Earlier Wednesday, a Palestinian man drove a van into pedestrians at a rail station in eastern Jerusalem, killing an Israeli border police officer and injuring 13 other people, police said.
Police shot and killed that driver, identified by Israeli authorities as a member of the Islamist Hamas movement, Samri said…”
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