Rabbi injured in Palestinian attack dies

A Palestinian attack in which a Israeli soldier was killed in the occupied West Bank has claimed a second life after a rabbi died of gunshot wounds.

An Israeli rabbi died of wounds from a Palestinian attack in which a soldier was killed in the occupied West Bank a day earlier.

Achiad Ettinger was shot on Sunday shortly after the soldier was stabbed to death at an intersection on a busy highway in the territory.

The Palestinian assailant used the 19-year-old conscript's rifle to fire at the rabbi and wound a second soldier before fleeing in a hijacked car, Israeli officials said.

The Israeli military was still searching for the suspected attacker, identified in the Israeli media as a 19-year-old Palestinian with no known affiliation with a militant organisation.

Tensions have also been high along the Israel-Gaza border where Palestinians have been holding weekly protests in support of a right of return to lands in Israel from which they fled or were forced to leave in the war over Israel's creation in 1948.

On Thursday, Palestinians in Hamas-ruled Gaza fired two rockets at Tel Aviv, causing no damage or injuries. Israel responded with air strikes against Hamas targets.


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Published 18 March 2019 9:16pm
Source: AAP


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