JERUSALEM — A young Israeli woman who was stabbed by Palestinian assailants in a West Bank settlement died of her wounds in a Jerusalem hospital early on Tuesday, several hours after the attack.
The victim, Shlomit Krigman, 23, was one of two women who were stabbed on Monday during an assault in the settlement of Beit Horon, where she was staying with her grandparents.
Ms. Krigman, who recently completed a bachelor’s degree in industrial design at Ariel University in the occupied West Bank, was from the settlement of Shadmot Mehola in the Jordan Valley.
A security guard shot and killed the two assailants at the scene.
The stabbing was the third knife attack inside a West Bank settlement since Jan. 17, pointing to a new trend in a nearly four-month wave of violence and raising Israeli fears of similar assaults. In all three cases the victims were women.
Adina Cohen, 58, a resident of Beit Horon who was stabbed in the same attack on Monday, told Ynet, an Israeli news website, from her hospital bed that two assailants armed with knives ran toward her “in a craze” as she exited a grocery store, and they started stabbing her “in the head and leg.”
Ms. Cohen said she fought off the assailants with her shopping bags when a car stopped and the occupants told her to get in.
The assailants then threw an object at the car, which turned out to be a pipe bomb. A total of three pipe bombs were found in the area of the attack, according to the Israeli authorities, but all failed to explode.
The Israeli and Palestinian authorities identified the suspects as a man, 22 or 23, and a teenager, about 16 or 17.
About 26 Israelis, an American student and one Palestinian bystander have been killed in Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and gun attacks since Oct. 1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/world/middleeast/israeli-palestinian-attack-beit-horon.html?ref=world
