{"id":15291,"date":"2018-09-16T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15291"},"modified":"2018-09-16T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T16:22:46","slug":"israeli-fatally-stabbed-by-palestinian-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15291","title":{"rendered":"Israeli fatally stabbed by Palestinian in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1372876\/middle-east\" readability=\"43\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: A Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli man near the entrance to a mall in the occupied West Bank on Sunday before being shot by a civilian, officials said.<br \/>No details were immediately provided on the identity of the Israeli, whose death was confirmed in a statement from Jerusalem\u2019s Shaare Zedek medical center.<br \/>Israeli media reported that he was 40.<br \/>Official Palestinian news agency WAFA described the attacker as a \u201cyoung man\u201d from the West Bank village of Yatta.<br \/>It said he was not severely wounded.<br \/>The incident took place at the Gush Etzion Junction south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, according to Israel\u2019s military, which provided the details of the stabbing.<br \/>Video footage shared on social media purportedly showed the assailant approaching an older man near the mall entrance and stabbing him.<br \/>He is then pursued by civilians and shot nearby.<br \/>There is regular friction between Israelis and Palestinians at the junction, which lies near a major Israeli settlement bloc and has been the site of numerous attacks.<br \/>A wave of Palestinian knife attacks against Israelis broke out in 2015, but they have since become sporadic.<br \/>On September 3, a Palestinian wielding a knife approached an Israeli military checkpoint near the hard-line Kiryat Arba settlement in the Hebron area and was shot dead by soldiers, according to the army.<br \/>There are concerns that tensions between Israelis and Palestinians will increase this month as Jews celebrate their high holidays and pay more visits to holy sites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: A Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli man near the entrance to a mall in the occupied West Bank on Sunday before being shot by a civilian, officials said.No details were immediately provided on the identity of the Israeli, whose death was confirmed in a statement from Jerusalem\u2019s Shaare Zedek medical center.Israeli media reported that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}