TERROR: Suspect Stabs 2 Soldiers Before Being Shot Dead

Chaos erupted near Ateret this morning when a terrorist lunged at two people at a spring outside the town, leaving both with minor injuries. Magen David Adom teams reached the location quickly and provided treatment to the wounded.

A short time earlier, the IDF had been alerted to a suspicious individual seen near Ateret. Soldiers sent to investigate confronted the suspect, and at that point, according to the military, “he began to stab the soldiers, who responded with fire and eliminated him.” The army noted that “further details are under review,” and reinforcements were rushed to secure the area.

The stabbing followed overnight unrest. Hours before the incident at the spring, a terrorist plowed his vehicle into a soldier at the Judea Junction near Chevron, leaving her lightly wounded. Troops from the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion tracked the perpetrator down later in the morning. When they approached his car, the terrorist tried to escape in a way that put the soldiers in danger, and they “responded with live fire and eliminated him.”

In parallel to these attacks, Yisroel Hayom highlighted that nearly 40 terrorists freed in recent hostage deals have since been arrested or killed in Judea, Samaria, or Yerushalayim. The report noted that these cases emerged “in the two years since the first hostage deal, and less than two months after the third,” out of approximately 700 detainees released to those areas.

The outlet added that the true number of those who reentered the terror ranks is likely higher, as “some have not yet been apprehended.” The figures cited exclude the hundreds released to Gaza or expelled abroad, many of whom are also believed to have resumed violent activity. The Shin Bet warns that additional individuals may have already returned to terrorism or could do so in the near future.

{Matzav.com}