Israeli troops on Monday shot and killed two Palestinians who allegedly carried out a car-ramming attack on a highway in the occupied West Bank, injuring a soldier and a border policeman.
The incident took place near the city of Ramallah, the Israeli military said.
"An (army) officer was severely injured and a border police soldier was lightly injured as a result," the army said.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that the policeman injured in the pre-dawn attack had already been released from hospital.
A third Palestinian inside the car was wounded and taken into custody.
Khaldoun al-Deek, the mayor of the Palestinian village of Nima, told The Associated Press that the incident took place at a sharp curve in the road, leading him to "believe it was a road accident, not a ramming attack."
The Palestinian health ministry identified the two killed Palestinians as Amir Daraj and Yusuf Anqawi, both 20 years old and residents of villages near Ramallah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the military to expedite the demolition of the suspected Palestinian attackers' homes.
Since 2015, Palestinians have killed over 50 Israelis in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks, and Israeli forces have killed upwards of 260 Palestinians in that same period.
