Israeli stabbed by Palestinian dies of wounds

An Israeli security guard died of wounds he suffered in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City. The suspected assailant was shot and killed by Israeli police at the scene, a spokesman said.

It was the second attack on Israelis in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank in three days and a sign of rising tensions in the region.

Adiel Colman, a father of four in his 30s, was the man killed, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. He was a resident of Kohav Hashahar, a illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank.

A spokesman for Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said Colman had been stabbed several times in the upper body and was in a critical state when he was rushed to hospital.

The Shin Bet, the Israeli secret police, identified the suspect as Abdel Rahman Bani Fadel, 28, a Palestinian father of two from the village of Akraba near the town of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

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