GUSH ETZION JUNCTION, Palestinian Territories: One person was killed and three were wounded in a stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli emergency services said.
Paramedics and an army medical force “established the death of a man aged 30 with a stab wound and referred three injured people” to two Jerusalem hospitals, Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross, said in a statement.
The three injured people are a woman in her 40s in a serious condition, a man in his 30s and a boy of about 15, both in moderate condition, MDA added.
In a separate statement the army reported a “ramming and stabbing attack in the area of Gush Etzion Junction” in the southern West Bank, which has seen repeated attacks against Israelis in recent years.
The army statement did not specify the number of casualties, but said that soldiers “eliminated two terrorists at the scene” and that “explosive materials were found in (their) vehicle.”
It also said that “soldiers are conducting searches and roadblocks, and encircling the area.”
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement hailed the attackers, saying in a statement: “These heroic operations come in response to the relentless crimes of the settler gangs and the occupation army against our people.”
The Yesha Council, a body representing Israeli settlements in the West Bank, blamed the attack on the Israeli government’s refusal to annex the Palestinian territory.
“When the State of Israel silently allows a ‘pathway to a Palestinian state’, terrorism raises its head again,” the council said in a statement.
Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war in October 2023.
At least 1,006 Palestinians, including militants, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the war started, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
During the same period, 43 Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed in Palestinian attacks in the West Bank, according to official Israeli figures.
One killed, three wounded in West Bank attack: Israel emergency service
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One killed, three wounded in West Bank attack: Israel emergency service
- Paramedics and an army medical force “established the death of a man aged 30 with a stab wound”
- The Yesha Council blamed the attack on the Israeli government’s refusal to annex the Palestinian territory
Syria accuses Hezbollah of firing shells into its territory
- “The Syrian Arab Army will not tolerate any aggression targeting Syria,” the army said in a statement to SANA
DAMASCUS: Syria said Iran-backed Hezbollah had fired artillery shells into its territory from Lebanon overnight, state media reported on Tuesday, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese Shia movement.
Syrian army officials said artillery shells fired from Lebanon landed near the town of Serghaya, west of Damascus, the state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday.
The army accused Hezbollah of targeting Syrian army positions, telling the news agency it observed Hezbollah reinforcements at the Syrian-Lebanese border.
“The Syrian Arab Army will not tolerate any aggression targeting Syria,” the army said in a statement to SANA.
Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes.
Hezbollah and Israeli forces have clashed in eastern Lebanon in recent days, and Israel has carried out strikes across Lebanon, including on the capital Beirut.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Hezbollah of working to “collapse” the state, while the head of the group’s parliamentary bloc said it had “no other option... than the option of resistance.”
Hezbollah provided military support to former Syrian president Bashar Assad, who was overthrown in December 2024 by an Islamist coalition hostile to the pro-Iranian Shia movement.
Since then, its supply routes from Syria have been cut off, and Lebanese and Syrian authorities are trying to combat smuggling across the porous border between the two countries.
