A Palestinian has stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli man in the West Bank, police said, the latest in a a relentless outburst of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the attack took place yesterday near a gas station in the West Bank settlement of Givat Zeev. She said a 50-year-old man was stabbed and that he was evacuated to hospital.
She said the 18-year-old attacker, whose identity was not immediately known, was apprehended.
The attack is the latest in more than four months of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Some 26 Israelis and one American student have been killed in Palestinian attacks. At least 149 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, 104 of whom are said by Israel to have been attackers. The remainder have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Earlier yesterday, the Islamic militant group Hamas said a group of militants has gone missing inside a tunnel built to attack Israel that collapsed due to heavy rainfall.
Hamas confirmed the incident in a statement yesterday, a day after Palestinian social media activists publicised the matter.
Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has built a sophisticated network of tunnels that it has used to hide weapons, fire rockets into Israel and penetrate Israel to carry out attacks. Israel destroyed dozens of tunnels in its 2014 war with Hamas in Gaza.
Palestinian activists say the tunnel was in northern Gaza and that at least seven militants were inside when it collapsed Tuesday. Hamas says it is searching for the missing.
Three Hamas militants were killed in other tunnel collapses in Gaza this month.
