A Palestinian police officer was seriously injured on Friday when a young citizen ran over him at a makeshift checkpoint near Zababdeh town east of Jenin in the West Bank.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that 42-year-old Mahmoud Aissa a police officer was hit by a speeding vehicle as he was trying to stop it at a temporary roadblock near the Haddad tourist village.
They added that the vehicle flipped over on a road near al-Zababdeh town and its driver fled away after the police pursued him.
They noted that the reason behind the driver’s refusal to stop at the checkpoint was that he was afraid of being arrested because the car he was aboard was unauthorized.
