Police said a police officer was checking on a man suspected on Tuesday when “the perpetrator pulled out a knife and attacked the officer”. The policeman “responded quickly, shot and neutralized the suspect”. The policeman was treated for minor injuries. The perpetrator was a man in his 40s from the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, police said. There has been a growing wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Four attacks by shootings, stabbings and car vaccinations in Israeli cities have killed 14 people since late March. During the same period, Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinians, including assailants, according to the French Agency. On Sunday. Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian man who stabbed a police officer in central Hebron, where about 1,000 Jewish settlers live under heavy military protection among 200,000 Palestinians. The same day, the army shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian, who said she did not hear the warning shots near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Israeli forces are gathering suspects in the North West Bank after a man from Jenin shot and killed three people in Tel Aviv last week.
