Another Palestinian knife attacker killed

Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank shot dead a Palestinian who attacked them with a knife during an overnight operation to arrest suspected militants, the army said yesterday. A Palestinian official said the man tried to prevent the soldiers from entering his home when he was shot. Since October 2015, 248 Palestinians, 40 Israelis, two Americans, a Jordanian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese have been killed, according to an AFP count.