A Jewish settler was shot and killed early Monday in an attack blamed on "Palestinian terrorists" who opened fire on his car near the Jewish settlement of Neveh Daniel near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, reported The Jerusalem Post newspaper.
The man lost control of his vehicle after being shot and crashed into a truck on the Bethlehem bypass road, according to preliminary reports.
The man's name has not yet been released, said the Post, adding that it was unclear if there were other passengers in the vehicle.
"The sniper may have fired from the bluffs in the nearby village of El Khader overlooking the road," an Israeli army spokesman said in a preliminary investigation following the attack.
Israel’s army commander in the West Bank said following the attack that Palestinian police manning roadblocks near Bethlehem could have kept gunmen from carrying out the drive-by killing, according to Haaretz newspaper.
"I assume that if they had really wanted to thwart, to prevent (the attack), they could have done something in this regard," said Brigadier-General Benny Ganz.
Soon after the attack, Israeli troops re-imposed the recently-lifted blockade over Bethlehem, said the paper - Albawaba.com
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