Israel: Palestinian shot, killed in alleged stabbing attempt

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli troops changeable and killed a Palestinian antheral arsenic helium ran toward a autobus halt successful the occupied West Bank connected Friday wielding a weapon successful an attempted stabbing attack, the subject said.

It said Amir Atef Reyan got retired of a car astatine a junction and precocious toward a radical of Israeli civilians and soldiers waiting astatine the autobus stop. He was changeable earlier reaching them. The Palestinian Health Ministry aboriginal confirmed that Reyan died from his wounds.

Photos and videos published online amusement the Palestinian lying look down astatine a junction adjacent an Israeli colony earlier being taken distant successful an ambulance. The Israeli subject besides released a photograph of the knife.

The alleged onslaught comes amid an uptick successful stabbings against Israeli citizens. Earlier this month, an ultra-Orthodox Jew was earnestly wounded aft being stabbed by a Palestinian antheral conscionable extracurricular the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. The attacker was changeable dormant by Israeli police.

Settler unit against Palestinians has besides intensified successful caller weeks aft a Jewish settler was changeable and killed by a Palestinian gunman successful the bluish West Bank. The sidesplitting ignited a drawstring of settler retaliation attacks that near astatine slightest 4 Palestinians moderately wounded and sparked a bid of clashes betwixt Palestinians and Israeli forces.

Israel captured the West Bank successful the 1967 Mideast war. Around 600,000 Jewish settlers unrecorded successful much than 130 settlements scattered crossed the occupied territory, which is location to much than 2.5 cardinal Palestinians. The Palestinians privation it to signifier the main portion of their aboriginal state.

Israel views the West Bank arsenic the biblical and humanities heartland of the Jewish people. The Palestinians see the increasing settlements arsenic a usurpation of planetary instrumentality that threatens a two-state solution to the conflict, a presumption with wide planetary support.