Palestinian shot, injured in Ramallah

RAMALLAH: A Palestinian in pretext of a suicide bomber shot injured by Israeli border police in the occupied West Bank on Friday, AFP photos showed.

The man seemed to attack the police during clashes near a military checkpoint on the outskirts of the town of Ramallah. He was wearing what looked like a suicide vest, though it was unclear whether it was operational.

A video posted online showed the army shooting him three times. Police said the suspected suicide bomber stabbed an officer who was "lightly injured in the shoulder," but they did not respond to questions over a possible suicide vest. No independent confirmation could be obtained. The injured Palestinian, identified by a medical source as a 24-year-old from Hebron in the southern West Bank, was taken to hospital by Palestinian medics. He was in critical condition, the source said.