<p>Israeli security forces fatally shot a Palestinian at a checkpoint outside Jerusalem on Wednesday after he allegedly tried to run down a border policeman, the Israeli police said.</p>.<p>The driver, from Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, tried to flee an inspection at the checkpoint, hitting and lightly injuring the officer, the police said in a statement.</p>.<p>"The policeman and security personnel fired at the vehicle," it said, wounding the driver who was taken to a Jerusalem hospital.</p>.<p>"After attempts to save him, he was pronounced dead," Hadassah hospital said in a Whatsapp message.</p>.<p>The police did not immediately characterise the incident -- at the Al-Zaim checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, just east of Jerusalem -- as a terrorist attack.</p>.<p>The statement said army personnel checking the driver's documents became suspicious that they were forged and during the inspection the suspect drove off at speed, hitting the policeman.</p>.<p>The Hadassah statement said he arrived at the hospital's trauma unit "with no pulse and a severe stomach wound".</p>.<p>In June, Ahmad Erakat, nephew of Saeb Erakat the veteran Palestinian negotiator who died of coronavirus this month, was shot dead at a West Bank checkpoint after Israeli police said he drove his car at speed toward a policewoman.</p>.<p>His uncle said at the time that Ahmad, 27, was "executed".</p>.<p>He dismissed the police allegation of an attempted car ramming as "impossible", saying that Ahmad had been due to be married later in the week.</p>.<p>The previous month, a Palestinian man was killed in similar circumstances near the West Bank city of Ramallah.</p>.<p>He was shot dead on May 29 after trying to ram a car into Israeli soldiers, none of whom were injured, police said at the time.</p>.<p>Israeli forces, who have occupied the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day war, are regularly targeted in the Palestinian territory.</p>.<p>From October 2015 Israel and the West Bank saw a wave of "lone-wolf" attacks on Israelis by predominantly young, knife-wielding Palestinians.</p>.<p>Car-ramming attacks were also used, and more rarely, firearms. The attacks have become less frequent but have not stopped altogether.</p>
<p>Israeli security forces fatally shot a Palestinian at a checkpoint outside Jerusalem on Wednesday after he allegedly tried to run down a border policeman, the Israeli police said.</p>.<p>The driver, from Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, tried to flee an inspection at the checkpoint, hitting and lightly injuring the officer, the police said in a statement.</p>.<p>"The policeman and security personnel fired at the vehicle," it said, wounding the driver who was taken to a Jerusalem hospital.</p>.<p>"After attempts to save him, he was pronounced dead," Hadassah hospital said in a Whatsapp message.</p>.<p>The police did not immediately characterise the incident -- at the Al-Zaim checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, just east of Jerusalem -- as a terrorist attack.</p>.<p>The statement said army personnel checking the driver's documents became suspicious that they were forged and during the inspection the suspect drove off at speed, hitting the policeman.</p>.<p>The Hadassah statement said he arrived at the hospital's trauma unit "with no pulse and a severe stomach wound".</p>.<p>In June, Ahmad Erakat, nephew of Saeb Erakat the veteran Palestinian negotiator who died of coronavirus this month, was shot dead at a West Bank checkpoint after Israeli police said he drove his car at speed toward a policewoman.</p>.<p>His uncle said at the time that Ahmad, 27, was "executed".</p>.<p>He dismissed the police allegation of an attempted car ramming as "impossible", saying that Ahmad had been due to be married later in the week.</p>.<p>The previous month, a Palestinian man was killed in similar circumstances near the West Bank city of Ramallah.</p>.<p>He was shot dead on May 29 after trying to ram a car into Israeli soldiers, none of whom were injured, police said at the time.</p>.<p>Israeli forces, who have occupied the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day war, are regularly targeted in the Palestinian territory.</p>.<p>From October 2015 Israel and the West Bank saw a wave of "lone-wolf" attacks on Israelis by predominantly young, knife-wielding Palestinians.</p>.<p>Car-ramming attacks were also used, and more rarely, firearms. The attacks have become less frequent but have not stopped altogether.</p>