Israeli man stabbed at West Bank junction

Police were searching for a suspect after an Israeli man was stabbed in the West Bank Monday morning in a possible terror attack.

The man was taken to a hospital in Jerusalem with light injuries after the attack at the Mishor Adumim junction at approximately 8 a.m, Israel Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said.

The attacker fled the scene, and army units and police officers were combing the area, Rosenfeld said.

The attacker, identified as a Palestinian by several Hebrew-language media outlets, got into a taxi with Palestinian license plates and drove east toward Jericho, Israel Radio reported.

The victim was not named, but his age was given as 19, Hebrew-language news site Ynet reported.

It was not immediately clear if the stabbing was terror-related.

In December, a Palestinian teenager stabbed two people in a Rami Levy supermarket in the Mishor Adumim industrial zone, which sits east of Jerusalem in the West Bank.

In August, a guard at the entrance to adjacent Maaleh Adumim settlement was stabbed by a Palestinian man.

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