Israeli military: Palestinian attacker shot and killed by soldiers
Israeli and Palestinian officials offer differing accounts of West Bank violence.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shot and killed on Tuesday a Palestinian man they said attempted to stab soldiers. Palestinian officials offered a somewhat different account of what happened.
“One soldier blocked the assailant’s multiple stabbing attacks,” said the IDF in a statement on Twitter. “The commander at the scene fired toward the assailant and neutralized him.”
No Israeli soldiers were injured, according to the IDF.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) provided different information on the incident. The PA-run WAFA News Agency reported that Atallah Muhammad Riyan, 17, was shot and killed by Israeli fire west of the city of Salfit in the West Bank. Salfit is south of the Israeli settlement Ariel. WAFA did not report a reason for Riyan being shot but alleged that the soldiers did not provide medical attention to him at first.
