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Two suspects arrested for killing 3 Israelis in stabbing attack

Xinhua | Updated: 2022-05-09 10:01

Palestinian protesters hurl stones at an Israeli security forces' vehicle during a raid on the houses of the two Palestinian suspects in the village of Romana near the West Bank city of Jenin, on May 8, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua]

JERUSALEM - Two Palestinians suspected of killing three Israelis in a knife attack have been arrested after a three-day manhunt, Israeli security forces said Sunday.

According to a joint statement by the Israeli military, police and Shin Bet internal security agency, the two were captured in a forest near Elad, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish city, where they killed three men and injured four others on Israel's Independence Day on Thursday.

The two are 19-year-old and 20-year-old residents of the Jenin area in the northern occupied West Bank, Israel's state-owned Kan TV news reported.

The incident came amid heightened tensions over a string of clashes between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli police in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in recent weeks.

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