The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday that troops had killed a Palestinian suspect in the West Bank who may have been involved in a terror shooting attack earlier in the week that killed a pregnant woman as she was traveling to the hospital to give birth.

The suspect ran toward the forces operating in the West Bank town of Bruqin, while allegedly shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) and holding a backpack suspected of being booby-trapped, the military said, adding that he was shot dead.

Several other suspects of involvement in Wednesday’s deadly terror attack were arrested.

In the attack near Bruqin and the settlement of Bruchin, a Palestinian terrorist opened fire from the side of a road on Israeli motorists, killing Tzeela Gez, 30, and lightly wounding her husband, while they were heading to a hospital to give birth to their fourth child.

Gez was evacuated in critical condition to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, where she was later declared dead. Hospital staff conducted an emergency C-section to save the........

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