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By Staff Writers, Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Thursday, Oct 8, 2015

Israeli Yeshiva student critically injured after being stabbed by a young Palestinian in fourth incident in 24 hours.

Israeli medics at the scene of a stabbing incident that left a soldier lightly injured before the Palestinian assailant was shot dead by police [Reuters]

An Israeli student has been stabbed and critically wounded in Jerusalem as tensions between Israelis and Palestinians continue to rise.

The 25-year-old Yeshiva student was stabbed in his upper body at Ammunition Hill in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday, in the fourth such incident to take place in a 24-hour period, according to local media reports.

The alleged attacker, a 19-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem, was detained by police at the site of the incident.

"Police have him apprehended and he is being questioned," Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Al Jazeera.

Stabbing attacks
On Wednesday, three similar stabbing attacks were carried out.

In East Jerusalem's Old City, an Israeli man was reportedly stabbed and injured by Shurooq Dweiyat, a 19-year-old Palestinian woman. The man, who was lightly injured shot and critically injured her. Dweiyat says the Israeli man attacked her.

Another Palestinian, 20-year-old Amjad Jundi, was shot and killed by police after stabbing an Israeli soldier and attempting to steal his weapon, Israeli police said.

The soldier sustained light injuries.

In Petah Tikva, a city in central Israel, an Israeli man was stabbed outside a local mall on Wednesday evening. He was in stable condition, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz.

Police detained the suspected attacker, a Palestinian man from the Hebron area of the West Bank.


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