Three Jewish settlers were killed and three others were injured in a stabbing and car-ramming operation in and around the illegal settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning according to the Hebrew media.
In a statement the Israeli occupation army said a Palestinian young man stabbed two Israelis including a security guard near the entrance of Ariel settlement. He then stabbed two other Israelis at a nearby gas station and fled in a vehicle.
The same young man who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers later crashed the vehicle he was driving into other cars on a nearby highway before getting out and stabbing another Israeli man according to Israeli medics.
Palestinian reports identified the slain young man as 19-year-old Mohamed Souf from Hares town near Nablus.
Israeli medical sources who said at first that six Israelis were injured seriously or moderately during the stabbing and car-ramming incident announced that three of the wounded Israelis died after sustaining critical wounds.
The person who was initially reported by the Hebrew media to have been a second Palestinian attacker was only one of the wounded settlers.
The new Palestinian operation came amid growing Israeli crimes and violations across the occupied territories.
