An attempted stabbing attack was thwarted early Friday outside a police station in the Western Galilee and the suspect was arrested, the Israel Police said, hours after Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian hurling firebombs on a major highway in the West Bank.

According to a police statement, the suspect in the northern Israel incident drove to the police station at around 5:30 a.m., got out of his vehicle and attempted to stab a Border Police soldier guarding the entrance.

The soldier overpowered the would-be attacker and disarmed him before arresting him, the police said.

The suspect was identified by the police as a 23-year-old resident of the Arab town of Jadeidi-Makr, in northern Israel.

The previous night, troops shot dead a Palestinian who was throwing firebombs at passing vehicles on a major highway in the West Bank, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

Troops of the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit operating near the village of Baytin, near Ramallah, spotted several........

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