War in the Middle East

Palestinian (16) shot dead after knife attack

A 16-year-old Palestinian attacked and seriously injured an Israeli man with a knife at a crossroads in the West Bank on Tuesday. Israeli soldiers nearby then shot the teenager dead.

The victim of the knife attack was injured in the shoulder and taken to hospital, the media reported, citing an ambulance service.

Violent tensions again and again
The incident took place a few kilometers south of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The area has repeatedly been the scene of particularly violent tensions between Palestinian militants and Israeli settlers.

Since the start of the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip on October 7 last year, the situation in the entire West Bank has escalated significantly. According to the Ministry of Health, 403 Palestinians have since been killed in the West Bank in Israeli military operations, confrontations or their own attacks. There has also been an increase in settler violence against Palestinians.