September 17, 2018 00H:41 GMT/UTC/ZULU TIME
GUSH ETZION, PALESTINE - A Palestinian fatally stabbed an American-born Jewish settler in Palestine on Sunday then was himself shot and seized by armed civilians who gave chase.
Israeli security personnel work at the scene of a stabbing attack near a mall in the Gush Etzion Junction in the occupied West Bank, September 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
The victim, Ari Fuld, 45, was well-known amongst settlers as a pro-Israel advocate. According to his Twitter account, he had planned a lecture tour in the United States in November.
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Israeli police said the Palestinian who stabbed him in the back at a shopping mall in the Etzion bloc of Jewish settlements south of Jerusalem was shot and wounded by one of several armed civilians - including a bleeding Fuld - who gave chase.
The suspected assailant, identified in Israeli media as a 17-year-old from a Palestinian village, was taken into custody.
Palestinian street attacks against Israelis, many carried out by assailants with no known affiliation to militant groups, have been sporadic since 2015, a year after peace talks collapsed.
Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for the Hamas militant group that rules the Gaza Strip, called the Palestinian stabbing a “natural response to Israeli crimes against Palestinians”. It did not claim responsibility for the attack.
David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said on Twitter that “America grieves as one of its citizens was brutally murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.”
Friedman, who raised money for Jewish settlements as a private citizen, said Fuld “represented the best of both countries and will be deeply missed”. Fuld, a father of four, lived in the settlement of Efrat, in the Etzion area.
Most countries view Israeli settlement in Palestine as illegal. Israel disputes this.
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