In attack #5 in 24 hours, am IDF soldier injured, his Palestinian assailant killed
Early Saturday, a Palestinian stabbed a solider at the Rumeida checkpoint in Hebron while presenting his papers for inspection. A second soldier shot him dead. This was the fifth Palestinian attack in 24 hours, the third in the Hebron district. In this fresh outbreak of Palestinian terror after a fairly calm few weeks, three Israelis were hurt and three Palestinians killed. The Palestinian knifemen consistently went for the faces of their victims.