An Israeli settler was injured on Saturday in an alleged stabbing attack in Al-Kahlil as Israeli occupation expanded manhunt for shooters of Thursday attack near Nablus.
Israeli media reported that an Israeli was ‘lightly’ injured in an alleged stabbing attack in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron).
It claimed that a 16-year-old girl tried to stab the Israeli settlers but was ‘neutralized’ by occupation police at the so-called Ruth checkpoint, near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Meanwhile, occupation carried out intensive searches overnight in the area surrounding the West Bank city of Jenin as the manhunt continued to find the gunmen behind the deadly shooting which killed a Zionist settler and injured two others last Thursday.
Palestinian media reports said the searches were concentrated on Kafr Ra’i, southwest of Jenin and a few kilometers from the scene of Thursday’s attack. Other villages in the area were also searched, including Sanur and Jaba.
The searches came hours after Israeli occupation military chief Aviv Kohavi on Friday toured the site of the attack and vowed to expand the manhunt until the Palestinian fighters are found.
Three additional Israeli infantry battalions of troops, along with special forces and intelligence units, were deployed to the West Bank following the attack, as the occupation military, Shin Bet security service and police scoured the area for the shooters, Israeli media reported.
A wide arrest campaign was carried out in the last two days, with several Palestinians were captured by occupation forces in several areas across West Bank.
Source: Palestinian and Israeli media
