Israeli soldier stabbed to death in Palestinian attack in West Bank
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08 August, 2019, 12:00 pm
Last modified: 08 August, 2019, 12:12 pm
The military did not immediately accuse anyone in the killing but Netanyahu issued a statement calling it a Palestinian attack.
Israeli soldiers and a member of Zaka Rescue and Recovery team work near the scene where the Israeli military said an Israeli soldier was found stabbed to death near a Jewish settlement outside the Palestinian city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank August 8, 2019/ Reuters
An Israeli soldier was found stabbed to death in the occupied West Bank on Thursday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was killed by a Palestinian attacker.
In a statement, the Israeli military said the body with stab wounds was discovered near an Israeli settlement north of the city of Hebron. the soldier was also a student in a Jewish seminary, it added.
The military did not immediately accuse anyone in the killing but Netanyahu issued a statement calling it a Palestinian attack.
“The security forces are in pursuit, in order to capture the despicable terrorist and hold him to account,” Netanyahu said.
Hebron and surrounding Israeli settlements have often been a flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
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