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One Wounded in Suspected Stabbing Attack in West Bank Town, IDF Investigating

  • On Sunday, a 24-year-old Israeli man from Beitar Illit was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack near the village of Al-Auja in the Jordan Valley while stopping along Route 90 to purchase goods.
  • The IDF launched a large-scale manhunt, dispatching special forces and Israeli Air Force assets to the area; troops established roadblocks as they searched for the suspect who fled the scene.
  • Magen David Adom emergency medic Gal Shani reported the victim was fully conscious with an upper-body stab wound; he received field treatment before evacuation to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
  • In a separate incident on Sunday, Israeli forces fired gas bombs and closed the western entrance of Al-Mughayyir, a village north of Ramallah, preventing residents from entering or leaving the area.
  • Data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs shows 3,033 Israeli settler attacks between January 2025 and June 2026, as this incident follows several recent attacks in Judea and Samaria.
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The victim, a 24-year-old who was attacked in the Palestinian town of Al Auja when he got out of his vehicle to buy in a store, remains grave in the hospital

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Jerusalem, Aug 23 (EFE).- The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility for and celebrated the stabbing of an Israeli man on Sunday morning in the occupied West Bank. “We commend the heroic white-armed attack by one of our heroes of the Palestinian people near the village of Al-Auja, north of Jericho, in the West Bank,” says a statement published on Hamas channels. This morning, a 24-year-old Israeli was stabbed in the Palestinian …

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