A Palestinian assailant was killed in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday after attempting to attack Israeli soldiers with a knife, the IDF and the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported.
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Israeli soldiers spotted an assailant attempting to stab two other soldiers securing the Gitai Avisar junction near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, the military said in a statement.
"
One of the soldiers prevented the assailant's multiple knife attacks and the commander who was there opened fire and neutralized him,
" the source continued.
The army specified that the "
terrorist (was) dead
".
The Israeli soldiers were not injured, the army said.
For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that it had been informed that a "
citizen
" had been shot dead by the Israeli army, without immediately identifying him.
The West Bank is a Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by the Hebrew state.
More than 450,000 Israelis reside in settlements, deemed illegal by international law, in the West Bank, where 2.8 million Palestinians live.
Israel and the occupied West Bank have been the scene from October 2015, and for several months, of anti-Israel attacks, most often carried out with knives by isolated young Palestinians, sometimes also by car-rams and, in a to a lesser extent, to the firearm.
This violence has since diminished in intensity but persists sporadically.
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