An attacker was shot dead Wednesday after he hit an Israeli policeman with his van at a West Bank checkpoint and then stabbed him with a pair of scissors, police said. The man “drove his vehicle into the border policeman that was on duty," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said in an English-language statement. He then jumped out of his vehicle and stabbed the police officer with a pair of scissors, Rosenfeld said. Other officers at the scene opened fire and killed the attacker, he said. The wounded policeman was taken to hospital but was not in a life-threatening condition, police said. A picture of the attackers vehicle released by police showed a van with Palestinian number plates. The attack took place between the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim and the Palestinian neighborhood of Abu Dis, on the outskirts of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.