A suspected Palestinian car thief crashed a stolen automobile through a checkpoint on the entrance of Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday morning, earlier than he was shot by guards opening hearth in response, police stated in a press release.
It was the third such incident inside quite a lot of weeks.
The suspect was flippantly wounded within the taking pictures, and police stated he can be questioned after receiving medical remedy.
Police stated the suspect, who had illegally entered Israel from the West Bank, stole a car from the central area of the nation and drove towards the airport.
Guards on the airport seen the car because it approached at excessive velocity earlier than ramming through the checkpoint and driving on the incorrect aspect of the highway.
Airport safety responded by opening hearth and deploying roadblocks.
Police stated that the driving force had endangered the protection of the guards and most of the people.
Footage circulated on social media apparently confirmed passengers on the airport’s worldwide terminal who had been requested to lie on the bottom throughout the course of the incident.
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Ziv Hayat, who was within the terminal, informed Channel 12 information that there was preliminary panic when the incident started.
“We didn’t know exactly what had happened so everyone ran in panic and was shouting. There was a moment of hysteria and stress and everyone lay down. I was with a group of American tourists who didn’t understand what was happening, so I had to explain it to them,” he stated. “The incident ended after 20 minutes, and we were told that we could get up and continue as normal.”
There was a similar incident on October 23, when the airport was briefly placed on lockdown whereas the suspect was on the unfastened.
In an nearly identical incident on September 22, a Palestinian driver rammed a stolen automobile through a safety barrier at Ben Gurion Airport, inflicting no accidents.
