Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab a soldier near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, the army said. “Palestinian assailant armed with a knife attempted to stab an Israel Defence Forces soldier guarding a bus stop near the community of Ofra,” a statement in English said. The Palestinian health ministry named him as Maen Abu Qaraa, 23, from an area north-west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. On Thursday night “a Palestinian gunman opened fire” at soldiers near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem, lightly wounding one of them, an army statement said. Palestinians say it is rooted in frustrations from Israel’s nearly 50-year occupation of the West Bank.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2016 21:09 UTC