[IsraelTimes] Forces shoot at assailants who attacked army post in Jewish Tel Rumeida enclave of West Bank city, attack breaks several-day calm spellAn Israeli soldier was stabbed and moderately injured in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday morning.
Two attackers were rubbed out by security forces, according to the army.
The maimed soldier was taken to a Jerusalem hospital for treatment, where his condition improved from moderate to fair, a hospital official said.
The Magen David Adom emergency service said the soldier was stable and had not lost consciousness in the immediate aftermath of the attack. He sustained injuries to his upper body, a medic said.
"We saw a young man in his 20s, who was fully conscious and walking around. He suffered stab wounds to the shoulder and arm," MDA paramedic Zaki Yahav said.
His identity was not immediately cleared for publication.
The incident took place in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, a tiny enclave of Jewish homes in the majority Paleostinian city.