Israeli woman dies of wounds from Palestinian attack in West Bank

An Israeli woman died Tuesday of wounds she sustained in a Palestinian stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement on Monday, a Jerusalem hospital said in a statement on Tuesday.

The hospital spokeswoman identified the victim as Shlomit Kreigsman, a 23-year-old resident of the settlement of Shadmot Mehola in the Jordan Valley.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said Kreigsman was wounded when two Palestinians went on a stabbing spree outside a grocery store in the Beit Horon settlement on Monday.

They stabbed and moderately wounded another Israeli woman before a security guard shot and killed both attackers, Samri said.

Security camera footage showed the shop owner used a shopping cart to block the assailants from entering.

It was the third stabbing attack inside a Jewish settlement since last Sunday.

Palestinian media identified the attackers as 22-year-old Ibrahim Allan from the village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, north of Jerusalem, and 17-year-old Hussein Abu Gosh from the refugee camp of Qalandia, also located north of Jerusalem.

The incident was the latest in a four-month-long Palestinian uprising, including stabbing, car-ramming, and shooting attacks, which claimed the lives of 25 Israelis and a U.S. citizen.

At least 150 Palestinians have been killed during this period, some in clashes with Israeli security forces during protests, while more than half were alleged attackers who were shot down at the scene of the attacks. Endit