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Victim from Cave of Patriarchs stabbing taken to Jerusalem hospital. December 7, 2015. Credit: Emil Salman
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HEBRON (Ma'an) -- A young Palestinian man was shot dead after he allegedly stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli man near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron's Old City on Monday afternoon, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.

Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said Israeli Border Police shot the Palestinian after he stabbed an Israeli man in his 40s.
The Israeli was evacuated to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem for medical treatment in critical condition.

Locals identified the Palestinian as 21-year-old Ihab Fathi Miswadi. They said Israeli forces prevented Palestinian emergency services from reaching him to medical care after he was shot.

The soldiers did not provide any medical care themselves, locals said.

The Ibrahimi Mosque, which is sacred to both Muslims and Jews, has been the site of a number of deadly encounters in recent months.
The holy site has been surrounded by a series of tightly controlled checkpoints since 1994, when a US-born Israeli settler, Baruch Goldstein, massacred 29 Palestinians inside the mosque.

Hebron city has borne the brunt of violence since a wave of unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory at the beginning of October.
The city center is home to some 800 notoriously aggressive settlers, who live under the protection of thousands of Israeli forces, surrounded by more than 30,000 Palestinians.

Roughly a third of the 112 Palestinian fatalities since the beginning of October have taken place in Hebron district, the majority in Hebron city.

While Israel has alleged that many of these Palestinians were attacking Israelis when they were killed, both Palestinians and rights groups have disputed these claims in a number of cases.
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by Gili Cohen and Chaim Levinson for Haaretz

An Israeli man was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, in the southern West Bank.

The suspected assailant was reportedly shot dead by a Border Police force.

Medics were treating a man in his 40s who sustained wounds to his upper body, a spokesman for the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. The victim was being evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem for further medical care.

A Border Police spokesman said that the assailant, a Palestinian man, stabbed a passerby near the entrance to the Cave of the Patriarchs. A Border Police force opened fire and the attacker was killed.

On Sunday, two people were lightly wounded during an suspected terror attack that took place in Jerusalem during the evening hours. The assailant was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier who was at the scene.

On Thursday, a policeman was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack on Haneviim Street near the Old City. The assailant was shot to death.