Two Palestinians kill woman, injure 12 in Israel car-rammings, police say

By Rami Amichay

RAANANA, Israel (Reuters) -Two Palestinians carried out coordinated car-rammings in central Israel on Monday, killing a woman and injuring 12 other people, police and medical officials said, as tensions soared over the more than three-month-old war in the Gaza Strip.

Police described the incident in Raanana, north of Tel Aviv, as a terrorist attack and said two suspects were under arrest. The two are from the same family in Hebron, a city in the occupied West Bank, and entered Israel illegally, police said.

“They went out together and in parallel, to two different locations, took two cars and launched a series of rammings,” central district police chief Avi Biton told reporters in Raanana, a city north of Tel Aviv where the incident took place.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

At least one of the vehicles had been stolen, police said earlier.

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Israeli TV showed scattered personal items on a pavement and said several children were among the injured.

(Reporting by Emily Rose and Dan Williams; Editing by Kate Holton, William Maclean)

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