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                      West Bank Stabbing Wounds 2 Israelis

   by VOA News

   Israeli officials say a Palestinian man stabbed two Israeli security
   guards in the West Bank town of Ariel early Thursday.

   They say the Palestinian man was shot during the attack. The wounded
   Israelis, a man and a woman, are being treated at a hospital.

   Shortly afterward another Palestinian man tried to attack Israeli
   forces near Hebron with a screwdriver. He was shot and killed.

   Wednesday Israeli police shot and killed two Palestinians who stabbed
   Israeli pedestrians outside Jerusalem's Old City.

   Police say three Israelis were seriously injured in the incident
   Wednesday, including one who later died from his wounds and another who
   died from a wound apparently from police gunfire aimed at subduing the
   attackers.

   The attack occurred outside Jaffa Gate, a popular spot for tourists
   visiting Jerusalem's Old City.

   Police identified the two attackers as Palestinians in their early 20s
   from the West Bank.

   Also Wednesday, Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency said it arrested
   25 Palestinians linked to the terrorist group Hamas for planning
   bombings and suicide attacks against Israelis.

   The agency said it uncovered a "wide terrorist infrastructure" of Hamas
   in the West Bank, directed from the Gaza Strip.  Officials said the
   militants operated an explosives laboratory in Abu Dis in the West Bank
   and planned to carry out attacks in Israel.

   A campaign of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings by Palestinians in
   recent months has killed 19 Israelis and a U.S. citizen.  Israeli
   forces or armed civilians have killed at least 118 Palestinians, most
   of whom authorities have described as assailants.  Others died in
   clashes with Israeli security forces.
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