IDF soldiers and bomb technicians after disarming the bomb at the ‘Focus’ Checkpoint near the entrance to the community of Beit El in Binyamin. Aug 03, 2016. (photo credit: INBAL REUVENI/ TPS)
Two Israeli were injured, including one severely, in an stabbing attack near Qalqilya in the northern West Bank on Saturday.
According to Magen David Adom rescue services, paramedics were treating a 17 year-old teenager in serious condition with stab wounds to his back and a 60 year-old man who was lightly injured.
The two, residents of Ofakim, were reported to have gone to Azzun for dental treatment and were stabbed by a Palestinian teenager.
MDA said that the two were attacked near Kfar Azzon and were brought by IDF medical forces to join MDA teams at the crossing. The two injured men were evacuated by MDA teams to Meir hospital in Kfar Saba.
Ynet news quoted Palestinian sources as saying that the perpetrator, a 15-year-old local teenager, surrendered himself to the Palestinian security services.
The IDF was investigating the circumstances surrounding the attack.
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