Israeli police, ramming suspect killed as clashes erupt over home demolitions

A police officer was killed in
southern Israel on Wednesday in a ramming
attack ahead of protests against the demolition of
homes belonging to minority Bedouin Arabs,
police said. The suspected Bedouin attacker was
shot dead.
The officer killed, 34-year-old Erez Levi, was
among police carrying out security for the
demolition of 12 buildings in the Negev Desert
village of Umm al-Hiran, where the nomadic
Bedouin have built structures that Israel's High
Court ruled are illegal. Levi was posthumously

promoted to First Sergeant.
A number of other officers were injured when the
Bedouin assailant rammed his car into the police
officers, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri
said.
The driver, 50-year-old Ya'akub Musa Abu Al-
Qi'an, was a member of an Islamist movement in
southern Israel, she said, and police are
investigating possible links to ISIS. Abu Al-Qi'an
was a teacher in the village.