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Number of Palestinian attacks against Israelis on the rise in the West Bank

A Palestinian man tried to run over Israelis standing at a bus stop at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Kochav Yaakov. No injuries were reported. Police said that soldiers stationed at the scene opened fire and killed the attacker. Palestinian sources identified the assailant as Hussein Salaam Abu Ghosh, whose cousin and an accomplice committed a terror attack just one year ago, in the West Bank settlement of stabbing attack in Beit Horon, when they stabbed and killed a local Jewish resident of the settlement, Shlomit Kriegman.

In another case a Palestinian terrorist fired from a moving-vehicle toward an IDF post near the Palestinian West Bank village of Aboud. No injured were reported among the Israeli troops. The soldiers stationed at the scene returned fire, seriously injuring the terrorist. A makeshift rifle was reportedly found in the Palestinians’ car.