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A terrorist was shot in the Chawarah area of the Shomron shortly after 8:00am on Wednesday morning, 8 Cheshvan in another Palestinian stabbing attack.

The attack took place a few hundred meters north of Tapuach Junction.

B’chasdei Hashem security forces acted in time, wounding the terrorist before he could harm any of them. The terrorist did make contact with a soldier, trying to stab him with a screwdriver but it did not penetrate his protective gear.

Officials at Beilinson Hospital on Wednesday afternoon report he terrorist remains in serious condition in a medically induced coma.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photos: עוזאל ותיק via Media Resource Group)