The latest incident occurred on Wednesday, the second day of the Rosh HaShanah holiday. An 18-year-old Arab attempted to stab a female military police officer at the Beit Furik checkpoint, near Shechem in the central Shomron (Samaria). An alert IDF soldier shot at the terrorist, injuring only an Arab bystander instead. The injured man was taken to an Israeli medical facility, while the attacker was arrested.
The day before, an Arab mother of six stabbed a female IDF soldier, inflicting light-to-moderate wounds in her neck, at the Hawara checkpoint south of Shechem and Yitzhar. IDF soldiers on the site shot the attacker dead. The Yasser Arafat Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
This past Sunday, at a checkpoint east of Shechem, an armed terrorist broke out into a run towards the soldiers, yelling, "Allahu Akbar!" The commanding officer shot at his legs, inflicting light-to-moderate injuries. The terrorist, who had planned to stab Israeli soldiers, was treated on the spot, and was then taken to an Israeli hospital.
An Arab shooting at an army checkpoint in the area last night brought the number of local terrorist shootings to 13 over the past two weeks.