The assailant was then apprehended after a security officer from a nearby Israeli settlement ran him over, slightly injuring him. He was arrested and taken for questioning. An Israeli military statement named him as Mahmoud Yusef Nimer Hattib, an officer in the Palestinian police.
The attack occurred at Tapuah Junction, south of Nablus. The soldier, a non-commissioned officer in the Israeli army, was sitting in his vehicle at a traffic light when the assailant reached in through an open window and stabbed him in his upper body.
The soldier tried to flee and managed to drive a short distance before his lost consciousness and his vehicle spun out of control.
He received emergency first-aid treatment at the site, but died of his wounds on the way to hospital.
