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Palestinian Breaks Into Home, Stabs Three Israelis To Death
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A Palestinian stabbed three Israelis to death and wounded a third in a West Bank settlement on Friday.
The attacker broke into the victims’ home, located in a West Bank settlement near Halamish, before stabbing them, according to the Times of Israel. The victims included a man in his 40s, another in his 60s and a woman in her 40s, according to paramedics. A fourth woman was also reported to be in serious condition on the way to a nearby medical center in Jerusalem.
A neighbor shot the Palestinian attacker, though reports are conflicted as to whether he is dead or alive.
“When we went into the house we saw four casualties lying [on the floor] with stab wounds,” Ohad Amitoun, a rescue worker with Israel Maden David Odom emergency service told the Times of Israel. “Another 60-year-old woman was conscious and suffered stab wounds to her upper body. She was treated at the scene and was evacuated by an MDA intensive care ambulance.She was in moderate-serious condition.”
The deadly attack followed a series of violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in east Jerusalem and the West Bank with left three Palestinians dead and more than 190 injured. The clashes were a response to Israeli’s installation of new metal detectors outside the Temple Mount compound, which houses the al-Aqsa mosque. Israeli security forces installed the metal detectors after a group of Palestinian terrorists shot and killed three Israeli police near the compound.
Israel fell victim to a series of Palestinian stabbings throughout 2015 and 2016.
The Trump administration called upon Israel and Jordan, which helps run Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem, to find a solution to the Temple Mount issue. A solution may not be likely in the near future though, as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ceased official contact with Israel in response to the ongoing conflict.
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