(5 Jul 2016) Palestinian surgeon Doctor Ali Shrokh on Tuesday recounted how he helped rescue an Israeli family whose car crashed following a deadly roadside shooting by Palestinian militants in the West Bank.
Doctor Shrokh said he was on his way to Friday prayers when he saw an overturned Israeli car and Israeli police around the area.
He said another Palestinian man had stopped at the scene and told him he had already pulled a girl out.
Doctor Shrokh said he talked to the girl and calmed her down before helping to remove a woman from the car who was trapped by her seatbelt.
Within minutes, he said Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams were on the scene treating the victims.
Israeli officials said the car was shot by gunmen in a Palestinian vehicle that overtook them and fled after the attack.
The driver, Miki Mark, the head of a Jewish seminary in a nearby Israeli settlement, was killed, while his wife and two teenage children were wounded.
The assailants have not been caught.
Last week's shooting, along with the fatal stabbing of an Israeli girl as she slept in her bed, have ratcheted up tensions in the southern West Bank.
Israel has responded by imposing a closure around the city of Hebron and beefed up its troop presence in the volatile area.
With over 300,000 Jewish settlers now living in the West Bank, contact between Israelis and the area's 2.5 million Palestinians is inevitable.
But the contact usually takes place at Israeli military checkpoints or in Israeli-owned factories that employ Palestinian menial laborers.
One of the few areas of co-operation is in the medical profession - usually with Israeli hospitals treating Palestinians wounded in conflict.
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