Four Israeli police officers were injured in a vehicular attack at a checkpoint in central Israel. The attacker, 26, was neutralized by security agents.
The incident occurs against a backdrop of war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Some 1,160 people, most of them civilians, were killed in Israel, according to an AFP count based on official data. The attack took place at a roadblock erected to control motorists in a town adjacent to the West Bank, northeast of Tel Aviv.