The Times of Israel reports: Security forces on Wednesday placed a cordon around the West Bank town of Yatta, hours after a Palestinian resident stabbed a supermarket worker in a terror attack in a central Israeli town.

All traffic coming in and out of the village was being checked, the IDF said in a statement.

Earlier Israeli troops raided the Yatta home of Ismail Ibrahim Ismail Abu Aram, 19, who was arrested after stabbing and critically wounding an Israeli man, at a supermarket in the city of Yavneh.

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