A Palestinian assailant was shot and killed on Wednesday while trying to stab Israeli forces at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem, Israeli authorities said.

According to the Israel Police and medics, no Israeli forces were injured in the attack, which occurred at the “tunnels checkpoint” between the capital and the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Border Police officers stationed at the checkpoint identified a suspect arriving on foot from the direction of the West Bank, police said, and during a routine inspection, the suspect presented his ID card before pulling out a knife.

The Israel Defense Forces said the assailant was then shot by a platoon commander of the Military Police’s Erez Battalion, a unit that is also stationed at the checkpoint alongside the Border Police officers.

According to the Palestinian Authority’s General Authority for Civilian Affairs, the suspect was killed, and his body was detained by Israel.

He was identified as Qussai Halaika, 28, from the town of al-Shuyukh, north of Hebron in the southern West Bank.

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Meanwhile, the military said that a Palestinian who hurled a firebomb at Israeli troops in the West Bank on Tuesday was shot dead by troops.

Palestinian Authority health officials identified the man as 20-year-old Muhammad Rajih Nasrallah.

According to the IDF, during an operation in the southern West Bank town of ad-Dhahiriya, troops spotted the suspect hurling a Molotov cocktail at the forces.

“The soldiers........

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