JERUSALEM: Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian after he stabbed an Israeli police officer at a West Bank checkpoint on Monday, the latest in a series of recent stabbing attacks that have escalated tensions in the region.

The assailant approached the checkpoint, telling cops there he felt unwell. As he got closer, he pulled out a knife and stabbed one of the officers, slightly wounding him. Another officer then fatally shot the attacker, a man in his 20s, Samri said.

The attack was the third stabbing since Saturday, when two Palestinians were shot, one fatally, after they attacked security forces in two separate incidents in the West Bank.