Palestinian shot dead after trying to blow up settlement gas station

Israeli security forces on Thursday shot and killed a man trying to blow up a gas station in the West Bank settlement of Mishur Adumim, near Jerusalem.

A Palestinian gas station attendant was lightly wounded in the incident.

Security forces were alerted mid-morning that a man was trying to torch the gas station.

When they arrived on the scene, they called out to the man to halt his activities at once and stand still. According to an initial investigation, the assailant then began running toward the security forces, holding an unrecognizable object in his hand.

Police investigators are still trying to determine the identity of the assailant. They believe that he was a Palestinian carrying out a terrorist attack in response to the Israel Defense Forces' offensive in the Gaza Strip.