JERUSALEM (AP) — A knife-wielding Palestinian woman attacked an Israeli soldier on guard near a sensitive West Bank holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Saturday, wounding him and a Palestinian bystander before she was shot and killed by
JERUSALEM (AP) — A knife-wielding Palestinian woman attacked an Israeli soldier on guard near a sensitive West Bank holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Saturday, wounding him and a Palestinian bystander before she was shot and killed by Israeli troops, the military said. The stabbing incident occurred in Hebron, a flashpoint during the past five months of violence, in which Palestinians have carried out near-daily attacks, mainly stabbings.
The soldier was slightly wounded. A Palestinian who intervened to try to stop the attacker was stabbed and more seriously wounded, and was taken to a hospital for treatment, the military said. About 850 Israeli settlers live in heavily-guarded enclaves in Hebron, surrounded by tens of thousands of Palestinians. Much of the animosity in the biblical city is over a holy site known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Later Saturday, a Palestinian drove his vehicle into a group of police officers injuring three of them lightly, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. The officers opened fire wounding the three Palestinians in the vehicle, she said.
