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An Israeli man was stabbed to death in a terror attack at a bus station outside the West Bank settlement of Ariel on Monday afternoon.

The assailant, who is an Arab-Israeli citizen from Jaffa, arrived at the bus station on foot. He stabbed the Israeli civilian and fled. An IDF officer who saw the attack pursued the terrorist and hit him with his car. The assailant was still able to flee the scene.

He has been named as Abdul Hakim Assi.

The victim, Itamar Ben Gal, is from the Har Bracha settlement and taught in the yeshiva there.

IDF soldiers are now searching the area.

“We will bring them [the terrorist] to justice,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the Likud faction meeting.

“When we arrived at the site, an IDF medic was giving primary care to a 30-year-old man who was unconscious with stab wounds on his upper body,” said Magen David Adom emergency medic Mordechai Ya’akov Feder.

“We continued treatment, employing medication to stop the bleeding.”

Ben Gal had suffered from multiple wounds to his upper body and was declared dead at Beilinson Hospital..