Two Israeli soldiers were injured on Tuesday April 4 in a knife attack in the center of the country and the assailant was arrested, according to the first information given by the police and the emergency services.
A suspect was arrested after stabbing two soldiers near the Tzrifin military base near Beer Yaakov on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israeli police said in a brief statement.
Several incidents
According to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, the two injured are in their twenties.
One was seriously and the other lightly injured and both were taken to an Israeli hospital.
In 2003, during the Second Intifada (Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation), nine soldiers were killed in a suicide attack near the Tzrifin base.
This new attack comes after several deadly incidents since Friday, March 31, after a lull observed in Israeli-Palestinian violence since the start of Ramadan 10 days ago.
This Monday, two Palestinian fighters were killed in a new Israeli military incursion into Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank.
A heavy toll
On Saturday April 1, three Israelis were injured in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank.
The alleged perpetrator was killed by soldiers.
And overnight from Friday to Saturday, Israeli police shot and killed a young Bedouin from southern Israel who they said grabbed a policeman's gun and fired it in Jerusalem's Old City, sector occupied and annexed by Israel.
His family disputes this version of the facts.
Since early January, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed the lives of at least 91 Palestinians, 15 Israelis and one Ukrainian, according to an AFP tally compiled from official Israeli and Palestinian sources.
These figures include, on the Palestinian side, combatants and civilians, including minors, and on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, including minors, and two members of the Arab minority.
