According to a statement from the Israeli military, the suspect stabbed civilians at the entrance to Ariel Industrial Park, near the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
He then stabbed other people at a nearby gas station, before fleeing in a vehicle which he crashed into other cars on a nearby highway, the military said. After years of relative calm, violence in the West Bank has flared in recent months. Israeli forces have killed more than 100 Palestinians from there this year, most since late March when the Israeli army launched a crackdown on an ongoing wave of attacks by Palestinian militants which have killed at least 23 people in Israel and Israeli settlements in the last year.
Most world powers deem settlements built in the territory Israel seized in the 1967 war as illegal under international law and their expansion as an obstacle to peace, since they eat away at land the Palestinians claim for a future state.Israeli officials blame the Palestinian Authority , which exercises limited rule in the West Bank, for failing to control factions like the Iran-linked Islamic Jihad movement, target of 56-hour Israeli air strikes into Gaza in August.
The PA, deeply unpopular in the West Bank and under pressure from the more radical Hamas, says its hands are tied by Israel and it cannot prevent violence against Palestinians by settlers who enjoy army protection.
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