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Palestinian driver shot dead after alleged car-ramming on Israeli police

Israeli forces check the scene of a Palestinian ramming attack at an Israeli military checkpoint near the town of Abu Dis in the Israeli-occupied West Bank June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Israeli police on Tuesday shot dead a Palestinian man who they said had tried to ram his car into an officer at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian officials questioned the police’s account of Ahmad Erekat’s death. They said he was rushing to nearby Bethlehem to pick up family members from a hair salon on his sister’s wedding day.

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