In the third incident of its type in a week, a Palestinian was shot and killed after attempting to stab a border guard at the Tapuach Junction in the West Bank on Monday. The junction is roughly where a border guard was stabbed on Saturday by a Palestinian. According to a police statement: "A Palestinian man arrived at the Tapuach junction, and approached the border police guards stationed at the checkpoint, while saying he was feeling ill , the guards instructed him to approach, and once he was within a short distance of them, the man pulled a knife and attempted to stab one of the guards. The guard was slightly wounded and was successful and pushing the attacker back, while another border policeman shot and neutralized the attacker." The incident bears a striking resemblance to two other incidents last week in which a Palestinian man attempted to stab a border policeman on Saturday near the same junction. That incident also ended with a soldier lightly wounded, and an injured Palestinian attacker.
