injured in separate stabbing incidents in Tel Aviv and the occupied
West Bank, Israeli police have said.
Monday's incidents came amid a wave of unrest in parts of Israel and
the occupied Palestinian territories following the storming of the
Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli soldiers last Wednesday.
The violence began in Tel Aviv where a Palestinian teenager from the
northern West Bank stabbed a 20-year-old soldier, leaving him in
critical condition. The soldier died of his wounds in hospital late on
Monday night.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, said officers had arrested the Tel
Aviv attacker, who stabbed the soldier several times, adding that he
was from the town of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
"He is currently under interrogation," Rosenfeld said.
In the second attack, a Palestinian man stabbed three Israelis at the
entrance of the Alon Shvut settlement in the West Bank on Monday
evening, Israeli police said, adding that the attacker was then shot
by the guard.
A 25-year-old Israeli woman died in the incident and the other two
victims have been hospitalised for minor injuries.
Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from Jerusalem, said: "One of the
guards stationed at the entrance shot the attacker. There are
conflicting reports whether the Palestinian attacker was killed or is
being treated in hospital."
"Settlements are gated communities with armed guards and high walls
with high protection," our correspondent said, referring to
residential areas in the southern West Bank where Israelis live.
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