Israeli stabbed to death in West Bank, Palestinian attacker killed

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One Israeli was stabbed to death and a Palestinian teenager was shot dead on Thursday after the Palestinian stabbed three Israelis near an Israeli settlement south of the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Israeli army and the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

The Israeli army said the teenage attacker snuck into the settlement on Thursday evening, stabbing three people before being shot dead.

The attacker was later identified by Palestinian media as Mohammed Dar Youssef, 17, from the village of Kobar, north of Ramallah.

Israeli security forces at the Adam settlement in the occupied West Bank where a stabbing attack took place, July 26, 2018. /VCG Photo

The Israeli who died was named as Yotam Ovadia, 31, with Israeli media saying he had two young children.

Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman pledged on Friday to build hundreds of new homes in a settlement in the occupied West Bank.

"The best answer to terrorism is the expansion of settlements," Lieberman wrote on Twitter, announcing 400 new housing units in the Adam settlement north of Jerusalem a day after the deadly stabbing.

In a statement, Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas praised the "courageous operation" in the West Bank without claiming responsibility for it. "The West Bank is ready and able to avenge the blood of the martyrs," it said.

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Source(s): AFP ,Xinhua News Agency