A Palestinian youth stabbed an Israeli border policeman Monday in the marketplace of the West Bank town of El-Bireh.
The policeman, Ratib Sabah, 19, was hospitalized for slight injuries. His assailant was wounded and captured while trying to escape.
Security forces wounded three Palestinians during a stone-throwing melee in Halhoul, near Hebron.
These were the latest incidents in the escalation of violence in the West Bank since an Israeli soldier was killed last Friday by a building block dropped on his head in the Nablus casbah.
The curfew clamped on Nablus was still in force Monday as security forces searched for the killers of 25-year-old Sgt. Maj. Binyamin Meisner.
An undisclosed number of suspects are in custody.
The Israel Defense Force demolished the building used for the attack. Soldiers also sealed off the entrance and exit of the narrow alley where Meisner was struck by a 33-pound block dropped from a rooftop three stories above him.
Meanwhile, a ban on access to and from the administered territories was ordered from midnight Monday to 10 p.m. Tuesday.
The extra security measure was taken as a precaution against incidents during Tuesday’s municipal elections in Israel, which are a national holiday.
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