Israeli troops stopped two attempted attacks on Friday at the Jalamah checkpoint near Jenin and at the Halhul junction north of Hebron.<br />In both cases, no Israeli was hurt and no damage was caused.<br />On Friday morning, a Palestinian attacker opened fire at the Jalamah checkpoint.<br />Israeli security forces returned fire and hit the shooter, who was taken taken away by a Palestinian van.<br />According to Palestinian reports, he was moderately wounded with two bullets to the chest and three to the leg.<br />About an hour later, a Palestinian attacker tried to ram his car into a group of IDF artillery corps soldiers standing behind concrete barriers at the Halhul junction.<br />The troops shot and killed the attacker.<br />A knife was later found in the attacker's car.
