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Emergency personnel look on as a fire burns near the site of a suspected stabbing attack in the West Bank on July 23, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)
Palestinian Authority/Gaza, July 23, 2026
2 Israelis hurt in separate Palestinian stabbing attacks in West Bank
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Two Israeli men were wounded on Thursday in separate Palestinian stabbing attacks in the West Bank, with all the assailants killed.
In the first incident, a civilian was seriously wounded near the West Bank settlement of Elon Moreh while trying to extinguish a fire, medics and the military said.
The stabbing occurred close to the Derech Avraham farming outpost. Israeli settlers had been working in the area to extinguish a blaze there.
At the site of the fire, a clash erupted between Israelis and Palestinians during which two Palestinian assailants stabbed an Israeli man, identified as Itamar Cohen, before they were shot dead.
“Another civilian who was at the scene identified the attack and eliminated the two terrorists,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said its medics treated 51-year-old Cohen, who was stabbed in the chest and seriously wounded. He was then airlifted to a hospital by the Israeli Air Force’s elite Unit 669 for further treatment.
Troops encircled the nearby Palestinian town of Beit Furik following the incident and were carrying out searches in the area, the army said...
“This is a serious terror incident,” Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan said in a statement. “We are again and again witnesses to arson and terror attacks.”
Dagan blamed the Palestinian Authority and terror organizations for inciting attacks and demanded an “iron fist from the government” to deal with the violence.
Later in the day, an IDF paratrooper was lightly injured in a second stabbing attack in the northern West Bank, according to the military.
The Palestinian attacker arrived near an army post located at the site of the formerly evacuated settlement of Ganim, where he stabbed a soldier of the Paratroopers Brigade.
Other soldiers returned fire, killing the Palestinian stabber, the army added.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war in October 2023...
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