2 killed, 2 wounded in stabbing attacks on Israelis
November 10, 2014 -- Updated 2133 GMT (0533 HKT)
(CNN) -- First, a 20-year-old
Israeli soldier was stabbed Monday in Tel Aviv. Then, three Israelis were
stabbed at a hitchhiking post near the entrance to a settlement in the West Bank , police said.
One of the three, a
24-year-old woman, was killed, emergency services said. The soldier stabbed
earlier also died of his wounds, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
In both incidents, the
attackers were "terrorists," police said.
"The atmosphere of
violence rides the wave of Palestinian incitement," Israeli military
spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said on Twitter.
The incidents came amid
simmering tensions -- not just between Israel Gaza
After the Tel Aviv
stabbing, an 18-year-old Palestinian suspect from Nablus
in the West Bank was arrested "with the
help of eyewitnesses while he was hiding in an apartment building in the fourth
floor nearby the central bus station," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
After the stabbings at
the Alon Shvut junction in the West Bank , the
attacker was shot by a security guard, police said.
The junction is the same
site where three Israeli teens were kidnapped and later found dead, ultimately
sparking an Israeli military campaign targeting Hamas in Gaza
On Saturday, Israeli
police shot and killed a Palestinian man who attacked police officers with a
knife in a village in northern Israel
"These
are difficult days," Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said about the
stabbing Monday.
"I call
on all elected officials, all our leaders, from all across the political
spectrum, to stand united before the State of Israel. I place my trust in the
security forces, that they will not rest until they return normality to our
daily lives," he said.
Last decade,
Palestinian bus bombings and suicide attacks terrorized the country. The
construction of the West Bank barrier has helped stave off some would-be
bombers, while cutting off access to Jerusalem
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