West Bank – Two Palestinians armed with knives entered a supermarket near Jerusalem in the West Bank and stabbed two Israeli civilians, wounding them seriously on Thursday before they were shot and wounded by an Israeli bystander, the military said.
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The two Israeli victims and the two Palestinian attackers were then taken to an Israeli hospital for medical treatment, the army said.
Channel 10 TV reported that the Palestinian attackers, teenagers from the Ramallah area, walked around the supermarket for about 20 minutes scoping out victims before stabbing two shoppers, a teenager and a man in his 30s, in the back and neck.
The station spoke with an unidentified civilian who said he opened fire at the attackers. The civilian, who was carrying a gun, said he was inside a prayer area near the supermarket and soon after services began, he heard screaming, went outside and shot at the attackers.
Israeli news sites carried photographs from the supermarket showing blood splattered on the floor of an isle stocked with laundry detergent on display near a shopping cart.
The assault was the latest in months of near-daily Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and security personnel. Most of the attacks have been stabbings, shootings and assaults in which Palestinians rammed vehicles into Israelis. Since mid-September, 27 Israelis have been killed in the Palestinian attacks while 162 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including 115 said by Israel to be attackers. The rest died in clashes with security forces.
what happened to the murderers???