Palestinian killed, settlers injured in stabbing operation south of Bethlehem

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, March 31 (YPA) – A Palestinian was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces, and four Zionist settlers were wounded, as a result of a stabbing attack at the bus station near the Gush Etzion settlement, south of Bethlehem.

According to the “Palestine Today” agency, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the 30-year-old man, Nidal Juma’ Ja’fara, had died after carrying out a stabbing attack south of Bethlehem.

Hebrew sources reported that a settler was seriously injured in a stabbing attack near the “Gush Etzion” settlement, south of Bethlehem.

The Hebrew “Walla” website claimed that the stabbing attack took place near the “Elazar” junction, during which a 28-year-old settler was seriously injured, while the perpetrator was “neutralised.”

The website added that ambulance crews transferred the injured to Shaare Zedek Hospital in occupied Quds.

The Israeli occupation media claimed that a Palestinian, carrying a screwdriver, boarded a bus of settlers in “Gush Etzion” in the southern West Bank, and stabbed a settler and wounded him, and the outlet was shot and controlled.

YPA