Stabbing attack thwarted in north, hours after IDF kills Palestinian firebomber
Soldier overpowers would-be stabber outside Western Galilee police station; troops seek remaining suspects after shooting 18-year-old hurling Molotov cocktails on West Bank highway
An attempted stabbing attack was thwarted early Friday outside a police station in the Western Galilee and the suspect was arrested, the Israel Police said, hours after Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian hurling firebombs on a major highway in the West Bank.
According to a police statement, the suspect in the northern Israel incident drove to the police station at around 5:30 a.m., got out of his vehicle and attempted to stab a Border Police soldier guarding the entrance.
The soldier overpowered the would-be attacker and disarmed him before arresting him, the police said.
The suspect was identified by the police as a 23-year-old resident of the Arab town of Jadeidi-Makr, in northern Israel.
The previous night, troops shot dead a Palestinian who was throwing firebombs at passing vehicles on a major highway in the West Bank, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Troops of the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit operating near the village of Baytin, near Ramallah, spotted several Palestinians throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli motorists driving on the nearby Route 60 Highway, the military said.
The soldiers opened fire “on the terrorists, eliminating one of them,” the IDF said, adding that troops were searching for the other suspects.
The slain Palestinian was named by the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry as Haitham Ezzedine Omar Hmeida, 18.
According to the ministry, his body is being held by Israeli authorities.
Palestinian Haitham Ezzeddin Omar Hamida was killed earlier today after being shot by Israeli occupation forces in the village of Beitin, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/y30COf5B1F
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