Palestinian Assailants Are Killed After Third Knife Attack in Eight Days

Two Palestinian assailants stabbed two Israeli women in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday, wounding one of them severely, before being fatally shot by a security guard, according to the Israeli police.

It was the third stabbing attack inside a West Bank settlement in eight days, and in all three cases the victims were women.

A 23-year-old woman was critically wounded in Monday’s attack in the settlement of Beit Horon, and another woman, 58, was in moderate condition, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.

In a new twist — after four months of Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and gun attacks against Israelis — the police and the military said three explosive devices had been found near the scene of the attack. The devices, which the police described as improvised pipe bombs, did not explode.

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