3 Israeli killed, 3 wounded in West Bank attack

According to the Israel Occupation Forces (IOF), a Palestinian martyrdom-seeking operator stabbed a security guard near the entrance to the Ariel Industrial Park. The fighter then stabbed three Israelis at and adjacent to a nearby gas station, before he fled in an apparently stolen vehicle.

Shortly afterward, the Palestinian fighter crashed the vehicle into other cars on the Route 5 highway, before getting out and stabbing another person, according to medics.

He then took another vehicle and drove it against traffic, crashing into more cars, before he got out and was shot dead by Zionist troops and armed civilians.

Odelia Shahaf, a Magen David Adom ambulance service medic who was at the scene, said she thought it was a traffic accident.

“I was on the road and noticed what looked like a car accident. I saw a wounded man lying on the road and immediately went over to him,” she said.

“While I started treating him I heard people shouting ‘terrorist terrorist’ and saw a man running with a knife running in our direction,” Shahaf said.

“He then managed to stab and injure a 35-year-old man. I went over to the wounded man who was badly stabbed and stopped his bleeding,” she said. The Palestinian at that point got into another vehicle and again crashed into the cars on the highway, she said.

MDA said the 36-year-old security guard was seriously hurt. Security officials were probing how the Palestinian managed to flee after stabbing the guard at the first scene, and why they were not shot by another guard. The second guard only fired into the air.

Two men in their 40s who were stabbed at and near the gas station were killed, and another man in his 40s was seriously hurt. A man in his 50s was killed after being rammed by the Palestinian fighter and another 35-year-old was stabbed and seriously hurt on Route 5, according to MDA.