JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian attacker stabbed an Israeli civilian to death Sunday at a busy mall in the West Bank.
The military said the attacker arrived at the mall near a major junction in the southern West Bank, close to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, and stabbed the civilian before fleeing.
![Israeli forensic policemen inspect the site where an Israeli man was fatally stabbed by a Palestinian near a mall at the Gush Etzion junction near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on September 16, 2018](https://media.breitbart.com/media/2018/09/wi/afp/16/d6fe4f_israeli-forensic-policemen-inspect-site-an-israeli-man-was-fatally-stabbed.jpg)
Israeli forensic policemen inspect the site where an Israeli man was fatally stabbed by a Palestinian near a mall at the Gush Etzion junction near Bethlehem in the West Bank on September 16, 2018 (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)
Video footage shows other civilians on the scene chasing and shooting the attacker, whom Israeli media identified as a 17-year-old from a nearby Palestinian village. His condition was unclear.
Israeli medical teams arrived to treat the victim, identified as a 40-year-old with multiple stab wounds in the upper body. He was evacuated to a hospital but pronounced dead shortly after.
Israeli civilian stabbed by terrorist while at a mall in the Gush Etzion area, south of Jerusalem. An additional civilian at the scene neutralized the terrorist. Our troops are at the scene. pic.twitter.com/4sekZ6a8EA
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDFSpokesperson) September 16, 2018
Since 2015, Palestinians have killed over 50 Israelis, two visiting Americans and a British tourist in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks.
Israeli forces killed over 260 Palestinians in that period, of which Israel says most were attackers.
The near-daily attacks have since significantly decreased.
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