Two soldiers were lightly injured Tuesday morning in a stabbing attack near the northern West Bank settlement of Ateret, the Israel Defense Forces said. The assailant was shot dead.

The attack came hours after a soldier was lightly hurt in a car-ramming near the city of Hebron. The attacker was killed during a subsequent attempt to arrest him.

Tuesday’s stabbing occurred after troops were dispatched to question a suspicious individual seen near Ateret, north of Ramallah. Soldiers stopped the man and began inspecting him when he pulled out a knife and stabbed two of them before being shot and killed, the army said.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service said medics treated two lightly hurt soldiers at the scene before taking them for further treatment.

The Palestinian Authority health ministry identified the assailant as Mohammed Asmar, 18, from the nearby village of Beit Rima.

Palestinian media reported that the IDF seized Asmar’s body in accordance with the military’s standard practice in such cases.

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