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Wednesday, August 2, 2017
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Wednesday, August 2, 2017
IDF seals off terrorist’s West Bank town after attack
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAfter this morning’s terror stabbing attack at a Yavneh supermarket in which an employee was critically injured, the army is imposing a closure on the West Bank hometown of the attacker.
The IDF in a statement says the checkpoints have been set up on all roads leading to the Hebron-area twon of Yatta.
Earlier today, 19-year-old Ismail Ibrahim Ismail Abu Aram attacked a 43-year-old employee of a Shufersal supermarket, stabbing him multiple times in the chest, neck and head. He was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
Abu Aram fled the scene but was tackled and pinned to the ground by civilian bystanders until police arrived and arrested him.
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