A woman was stabbed outside the settlement of Alon Shvut in the West Bank by a man who had initially tried to drive his vehicle into a group of people waiting at a hitchhiking stop, according to police. <br /> <br />When the attempt was blocked by concrete traffic bollards, he left the vehicle and attacked the woman and two men with a knife. The two men, aged 26 and 50, were said to have suffered light to moderate wounds. <br /> <br />The attacker, named as Maher al-Hashlamun from the West Bank city of Hebron, was shot by a security guard from the nearby settlement and later died from his wounds. He was identified as a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group who had served time in Israeli jails for throwing Molotov cocktails. <br /> <br />The incident happened close to the Etzion junction, where three Israeli teenagers were abducted last June and subsequently found murdered.
