A Palestinian youth stabbed two Israeli soldiers at a road junction in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning before being shot dead.
One of the injured is a 20-year-old who was reported to be in a serious condition after being stabbed in the neck then taken to a Jerusalem hospital by helicopter.
The incident took place at about 10am in the northern West Bank.
A second soldier, also reported to be in his early 20s, was lightly injured in his back and is reported to have shot dead the Palestinian involved.
The incident took place on route 60, the main road linking the Palestinian West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus, near the entrance to the settlement of Ma’ale Levona.
Israel’s emergency services confirmed paramedics had responded to a call about a stabbing near the settlement.
“Paramedics are transferring a young man of around 20 to [Jerusalem’s] Shaarei Tzedek hospital in serious condition with a stab wound to his upper body,” a statement said.
Israel saw a wave of similar attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem towards the end of last year, but the violence has mostly subsided and the current Passover holiday has been relatively quiet thus far.
Palestinians demand the West Bank, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 war, as part of their future state and object to an Israeli presence there. Militants often target soldiers and Jewish settlers.
