The girl had found numerous wounds to the upper body.
In the West Bank, a Palestinian entered a house in the settlement of Kiryat Arba was stabbed and slept there for 13-year-old girl.
The attacker was killed by security personnel who heard the alarm and arrived at the house. One of them was wounded.
The dead girl’s name was Hillel Yaffe Ariel. The representative of us state Department John Kirby confirmed that she was a US citizen. The assailant was identified as 19-year-old (according to other sources, 17-year-old) Mohammed Traira.
He lived in the village of Bani Naim, located nearby. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to demolish his house and forbid his family to work in Israel, writes Reuters.
Kiryat Arba is located on the Western Bank of the Jordan river near the Palestinian city of Hebron. In the fall of 2015 in Israel escalated the conflict around the Temple mount in Jerusalem. Since September, the attacks killed 33 Israelis and two Americans, 200 Palestinians, the majority of whom Israeli authorities acknowledged the attackers were killed.
