Palestinian woman killed after alleged stabbing attempt
Xinhua, November 22, 2015 Adjust font size:
A Palestinian woman was killed after allegedly trying to stab Israelis in the West Bank on Sunday, Israeli military and police said.
The woman, armed with a knife, tried to stab two women at a bus stop near the Jewish settlement of Itamar, southwest of Nablus in the West Bank, the Israeli military said.
A civilian driver, a known settler who served as the head of a regional committee in the area, noticed the attacker and hit her with his vehicle, the Israeli police said, adding a soldier shot her dead soon after.
No Israelis were injured in the attack.
More than 80 Palestinians and 17 Israelis have died in the two-month wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in lone wolf stabbing, shooting and vehicular attacks.
The latest attack occurred on Saturday night, as a Palestinian stabbed and wounded four Israelis, including a 13-year-old girl, in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat.
The attacker managed to flee the scene but was arrested overnight by the Israeli police.
The current wave of violence was sparked amid strife over the flashpoint holy site of the al-Aqsa compound in East Jerusalem, holy to both Jews and Muslims, and amid dim prospects of a peace treaty based on the two-state solution.
In the 1967 Mideast War, Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which are home to about five million Palestinians. The Palestinians wish to establish a state on these territories. Endit