RAMLE, Israel (Reuters) – Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was lightly injured in a car crash on Friday and taken to hospital, police said, adding they were investigating the circumstances of the incident. ‘accident.
A video broadcast by Israeli media shows that the car the minister was in overturned on a street in Ramle, in central Israel.
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai told reporters that two other people were injured in the incident.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a figure of the Israeli extreme right, had this accident while leaving the scene of a stabbing attack which occurred shortly before in this town near Tel Aviv, indicated the police.
(Reporting from the Jerusalem office, French version Alban Kacher, edited by Sophie Louet)
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