AhlulBayt News Agency - A Palestinian minor was detained after allegedly carrying out a stab attack with a screwdriver in Tel Aviv on Monday, which left a an Israeli soldier lightly injured, according to Israeli police.
Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri claimed in a statement that a young Israeli man was lightly injured after being stabbed by a Palestinian suspect. The Palestinian allegedly attempted to flee the scene but was chased and apprehended by witnesses who then handed him over to Israeli police who took him in for interrogation.
The Israeli, who was later revealed to be an Israeli soldier, was evacuated to Tel Aviv's Ichilov Medical Center for treatment from where he was expected to be released shortly, and Israeli police imposed heightened security in area of the incident.
Al-Samri added later the suspected attacker was a 17-year-old Palestinian from the northern occupied West Bank town of Salfit.
Zionist media reported the Palestinian minor was employed at a supermarket near to where the incident occurred in Tel Aviv.
The suspected attack came hours after it was announced that Israeli forces had detained three Palestinian minors suspected of being involved in an alleged stabbing of two Israeli in the illegal Israeli settlement of East Talpiyot on May 10.
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers since a wave of unrest spread across the occupied Palestinian territory in October.
According to Palestinian prisoners’ rights organization Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of April, including 438 minors.
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