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Israeli stabbed to death by Palestinian in West Bank
Israeli stabbed to death by Palestinian in West Bank Man waiting in jeep at Tapuah junction when attacked through open window, vehicle overturns as he tries to speed away; assailant lightly hurt as he is run over by security officer, arrested.
Published: February 10 2010, 09:46
An Israeli man was stabbed to death by a Palestinian at the Tapuah junction on Wednesday afternoon, Judea and Samaria Police said.
The man was waiting in his jeep in a queue of traffic when he was stabbed in the chest through an open window.
In the man's attempt to speed away, the vehicle overturned.
The assailant was then run over and lightly hurt by a local security officer from the nearby settlement of Rehelim. He was then arrested by police.
The Israeli man was evacuated to Petah Tikva's Beilinson Hospital, where he succumbed to the knife wounds.
The Binyamin and Samaria Residents’ Committee blasted Defense Minister Ehud Barak after the deadly attack.
“It’s no small wonder that when the defense minister is busy implementing the racist settlement construction freeze and with vain arrests of settlers, the terrorists and their accomplices are celebrating,” read a statement from the organization. “Today, the settlement freeze monitors visited Kfar Tapuah while the terror attack took place right under their noses.”
In December, after months of quiet in the West Bank, 45-year-old father of seven Meir Chai was killed in a drive-by shooting attack near the northern Samaria settlement of Shavei Shomron.
Chai was the fourth person killed by terrorists in the West Bank in 2009. In March, two traffic policemen, Senior Warrant Officers Yehezkel Ramazreger and Chief Warrant Officer David Rabinovitch, were shot dead in the Jordan Valley, and in April, 13-year-old Shlomo Nativ was stabbed to death near his home in the Gush Etzion settlement of Bat Ayin.
