Security guard in Israeli settlement of Adam after alleged attack on 26 July (Reuters)
A Palestinian entered the Israeli settlement of Adam in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, stabbed three people, killing one of them, and was then fatally shot, the Israeli military said.
The attacker was shot by a settler, Israeli media reported.
Palestinian sources identified the assailant as 17-year-old Mohammad Tareq. In a Facebook post from an account that purportedly belonged to him, Tareq had called for a revolution against the Israeli occupation and decried the injustice inflected on Palestinians, whom he said face "murder, displacement and dispossession of their land".
Medics were treating three people, the Israeli ambulance service Magen David Adom said shortly after the incident. One of them was in a critical condition and later died of his wounds and another sustained serious injuries. The third person was lightly wounded.
In a previous statement, the army had said all three Israelis were "seriously" wounded.
Israel Radio said the assailant was shot by the security team of the settlement, Adam, which lies between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials.
Israeli-Palestinian tensions have surged in the past few months.
At least 149 unarmed Palestinians protesters have been killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli fire in weekly demonstrations near the fence separating the enclave from Israel.
On Wednesday, Israeli strikes killed three Palestinians in Gaza.
The flare-up comes five days after a UN-brokered ceasefire helped stop an earlier surge in violence.
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