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Israeli teenage girl stabbed to death in West Bank | |
(35 minutes later) | |
A 14-year-old Israeli girl has been stabbed to death in an attack in the West Bank, hours after another knife attack wounded a soldier in Tel Aviv. | |
The latest incident occurred near a Jewish settlement. The assailant was shot by a security guard. | |
A Palestinian from the West Bank city of Nablus has been arrested in connection with the attack in Tel Aviv. | |
The stabbings come at a time of heightened tension between Israel and the Palestinians. | The stabbings come at a time of heightened tension between Israel and the Palestinians. |
At the weekend, Israeli Arabs threw stones at police in mainly Arab towns in Israel after police shot dead a young Arab man, who had attacked them with a knife. | At the weekend, Israeli Arabs threw stones at police in mainly Arab towns in Israel after police shot dead a young Arab man, who had attacked them with a knife. |
'Serious condition' | |
Monday's West Bank attack took place at the entrance to the Alon Shvut settlement. | |
The attacker drew up in car, got out and then stabbed the teenager along with two other Israelis at a bus stop. The two injured men were taken to hospital. | |
The attacker was shot by a security guard and was taken from the scene in a serious condition, emergency services said. | |
In two other attacks in the past three weeks, Palestinian militants rammed vehicles into pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing four people. Both attackers were shot dead. | |
A Palestinian suspected of shooting and wounding a prominent right-wing activist, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, in Jerusalem at the end of last month was also shot dead in a gun battle with Israeli police. |