Palestinian man throws firebomb at West Bank military court

A Palestinian man who threw a firebomb at a Border Police post outside a military court in the northern West Bank was shot and then arrested.

The scene of an attempted terrorist attack just south of Nablus (photo credit: NADAV GOLDSTEIN/TPS)
The scene of an attempted terrorist attack just south of Nablus
(photo credit: NADAV GOLDSTEIN/TPS)

JERUSALEM  — A Palestinian man who threw a firebomb at a Border Police post outside a military court in the northern West Bank was shot and then arrested.

The man was shot in his lower body, police said.

Police sappers were called in and the entrance to the court in the Palestinian village of Salim, near Nablus was closed.

No officers were injured in the attack.