The Israeli occupation army on Sunday night imposed a tight siege on Beit Ummar town north of al-Khalil after a local young man allegedly wounded three soldiers in a vehicular attack.
Local activist Mohamed Awad said that the Israeli army closed all entrances to Beit Ummar and deployed dozens of its soldiers in the area following the car-ramming attack.
Awad added that the army also obstructed the movement of Palestinian vehicles on the road between Jerusalem and al-Khalil which led to heavy traffic congestion.
A news reporter from the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) affirmed earlier that a large number of Israeli troops rushed to the attack scene and closed the Jerusalem-al-Khalil road leading to the town’s main entrance.
He said that violent clashes broke out between local young men and Israeli soldiers at the main entrance to the town.
A military watchtower at the entrance also went on fire when young men attacked it with Molotov cocktails during the events.
These developments started after Israeli border soldiers killed a young man from the town as he was driving his car on the road claiming that he hit and wounded three of them.
