JERUSALEM (AFP) – A Palestinian stabbed and killed an Israeli man near a major West Bank settlement on Monday before fleeing the scene, Israeli authorities said.
“Israeli man murdered in stabbing attack in Ariel,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said in a statement.
He said that security forces were searching for the attacker.
The Israeli army identified the attacker as a Palestinian and said the incident occurred at a bus stop at the entrance to Ariel.
The victim was identified by an internal settler communique as Itamar Ben Gal, in his 40s and a resident of the Har Bracha settlement in the northern West Bank.
Ariel is one of the largest settlements in the West Bank, located 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Jerusalem.
It was the second fatal attack on Israelis in the northern West Bank in a month after Rabbi Raziel Shevah was shot dead on January 8.