Palestinian (17) shot after killing Israeli-American

Jerusalem – A Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli-American man near the entrance to a mall in the occupied West Bank yesterday before being shot and wounded at the end of a brief foot chase, officials said.

The man killed, Ari Fuld, was a rightwing activist who has appeared regularly on television, but a police spokesperson said there was no indication he was targeted for that reason.

Fuld, 45, was a father of four who lived in the Israeli settlement of Efrat, near the mall where he was stabbed.

The Palestinian attacker was 17-year-old Khalil Jabareen, from the village of Yatta in the southern West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.

Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said Jabareen was moderately wounded.

The incident took place at the Gush Etzion Junction south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, according to Israel’s military.

Surveillance footage shared on news sites and social media showed the assailant approaching an older man near the mall entrance and stabbing him several times.

He is then pursued by civilians and shot nearby.

There is regular friction between Israelis and Palestinians at the junction, which lies near a major Israeli settlement bloc and has been the site of numerous lone-wolf Palestinian attacks.

Fuld created a Facebook page called “Israel Defense Page” and was a hardline defender of Israel in his television appearances.

US ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on Twitter that “America grieves as one of its citizens was brutally murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.” –

America grieves as one of its citizens was brutally murdered