A Palestinian attacker stabbed an Israeli army officer in the chest near a West Bank settlement Sunday and moderately wounded him, before Israeli soldiers shot the attacker and apprehended him, the military said.
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Efrat is a short distance from the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, where on Saturday a Palestinian stabbed a soldier before being shot dead.
The incident came a day after several Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians, police and a soldier.
Shortly afterward, two Palestinians rammed their vehicle into a bus stop, wounding three Israeli civilians near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba. A 38-year-old female police officer suffered wounds to her neck and was badly injured, Samri added. They have killed 34 Israelis and two Americans, with about 214 Palestinians killed during that same period.
Israeli forces say most of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks.
In the first Friday attack, a man came out of Jerusalem’s walled Old City brandishing a knife in each hand, police said.
One of the Palestinians was killed instantly by regime forces and the other died of injuries he received in the shooting.
It was the fifth attack on Israeli security forces or civilians since Friday after a three-week lull in a almost year-long wave of violence.
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The two attacks followed a bloody weekend in which four Palestinians were killed while attacking Israelis, according to Israeli authorities, raising fears of a return to the near-daily Palestinian attacks seen at times over the the a year ago. Israel says most were attackers, but the Palestinians have accused Israeli forces of using excessive force and killing people who were not assailants. The Palestinians say it is rooted in almost 50 years of military occupation and dwindling hopes for independence from Israeli rule.
