Israeli stabbed in suspected West Bank terror attack

The victim had at least one stab wound; the assailant drove away in a taxi with Palestinian license plates.

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli man was stabbed in a suspected terror attack in the West Bank near Jerusalem.

The victim was taken to a Jerusalem hospital with at least one stab wound in his side following the attack on Monday morning at a junction near Maale Adumim, a settlement located about five miles from Jerusalem.

Police and soldiers were searching for the assailant, who drove away in a taxi with Palestinian license plates, Israel Radio reported. The attacker was identified as a Palestinian by Hebrew-language media and as an Arab-Israeli from Jerusalem by The Jerusalem Post.

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