Palestinian car thief crashes through Ben Gurion Airport checkpoint, is shot: police - The Times of Israel

A suspected Palestinian car thief crashed a stolen conveyance done a checkpoint astatine the entranceway of Ben Gurion Airport connected Sunday morning, earlier helium was changeable by guards opening occurrence successful response, constabulary said successful a statement.

It was the 3rd specified incidental wrong a fig of weeks.

The fishy was lightly wounded successful the shooting, and constabulary said helium would beryllium questioned aft receiving aesculapian treatment.

Police said the suspect, who had illegally entered Israel from the West Bank, stole a car from the cardinal portion of the state and drove toward the airport.

Guards astatine the airdrome noticed the car arsenic it approached astatine precocious velocity earlier ramming done the checkpoint and driving connected the incorrect broadside of the road.

Airport information responded by opening occurrence and deploying roadblocks.

Police said that the operator had endangered the information of the guards and the wide public.

Footage circulated connected societal media seemingly showed passengers astatine the airport’s planetary terminal who were asked to prevarication connected the crushed during the people of the incident.

תיעוד מנתב"ג: נוסעים בטרמינל 3 התבקשו לשכב על הרצפה בזמן המרדף אחרי הרכב שפרץ את המחסום@SivanSisay
(אנחנו עושים מאמץ גדול לאתר את בעלי הזכויות בצילום. השימוש ביצירות שבעל הזכויות בהן לא ידוע נעשה לפי סעיף 27א לחוק זכויות יוצרים. אם אתם בעלי הזכויות יש לפנות ל-zcuyot@kan.org.il) pic.twitter.com/FkgZWvpN4J

— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) December 4, 2022

Ziv Hayat, who was successful the terminal, told Channel 12 quality that determination was archetypal panic erstwhile the incidental began.

“We didn’t cognize precisely what had happened truthful everyone ran successful panic and was shouting. There was a infinitesimal of hysteria and accent and everyone laic down. I was with a radical of American tourists who didn’t recognize what was happening, truthful I had to explicate it to them,” helium said. “The incidental ended aft 20 minutes, and we were told that we could get up and proceed arsenic normal.”

There was a similar incident connected October 23, erstwhile the airdrome was concisely enactment connected lockdown portion the fishy was connected the loose.

In an astir identical incident connected September 22, a Palestinian operator rammed a stolen conveyance done a information obstruction astatine Ben Gurion Airport, causing nary injuries.