Palestinian teen who stabbed soldier dies in hospital
Female assailant was shot, critically injured at front gate of Mevo Dotan settlement; wounded serviceman recovering in hospital
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A Palestinian assailant who was shot after she stabbed an IDF soldier has died of her wounds, the Israeli hospital that treated her said Friday.
The assailant, identified by official Palestinian news agency Wafa as 16-year-old Nof Infiaat from the northern West Bank town of Yaabad, had stabbed a soldier on Thursday with a knife at the entrance to Mevo Dotan, a Jewish settlement southwest of Jenin.
The other soldiers on the scene shot the assailant, critically wounding her. Paramedics treated her at the scene and took her to Hadera’s Hillel Yaffe Hospital.
The soldier, who is approximately 20 years old, was also taken to Hillel Yaffe, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.
He was lightly wounded after being stabbed in his upper body.
Closed circuit video footage from the settlement shows the assailant walking calmly up to the front gate, before she goes out of frame. A few moments later, she can be seen running from the scene with one uniformed soldier and an armed off-duty soldier in pursuit.
The shooting itself does not appear in the footage.
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Though a marked drop has been recorded by security officials in recent months, 41 Israelis, two Americans, a Briton, a Palestinian and an Eritrean national have been killed in the spate of Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks that began over a year and a half ago.
Israeli officials have said that many of the attackers were driven by personal problems, with some saying afterwards that they tried to commit suicide by attacking a police officer or soldier.
According to AFP figures, some 250 Palestinians, two Jordanians and a Sudanese migrant have also been killed in the spate of attacks, most of them in the course of carrying out attacks, Israel says, and many of the others in clashes with troops in the West Bank and at the Gaza border, as well as in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks.
The spate of Palestinian attacks that began in October 2015 was dubbed the “lone wolf” intifada, as many of the attacks were carried out by individuals who were not connected to any terror group.
AFP and Judah Ari Gross contributed to this report.
The Times of Israel Community.