JERUSALEM (AP) – A Palestinian attacker stabbed and wounded a pregnant Israeli woman in the West Bank on Monday before being shot, Israeli officials said.
The attacker entered the Tekoa settlement and stabbed the 30-year-old woman, the Israeli military said, before being shot by the settlement’s head of security.
As a result, the military said “security measures” have been imposed in the West Bank and that effective immediately, Palestinian workers will not be allowed to enter Israeli settlements, though they will still be able to enter industrial zones. The decision will be reviewed on a daily basis, it said.
Shoham Ruvio, a spokeswoman for Jerusalem’s Shaarei Tzedek hospital, said the woman stabbed Monday was five-months pregnant. The woman was moderately wounded after being stabbed in the upper body and there was no damage caused to the fetus, the spokeswoman added.
Ruvio identified the woman as Michal Froman, the daughter-in-law of a late settler rabbi known to promote coexistence between Arabs and Jews.