A 17-year-old female Israeli was moderately wounded after being stabbed in the back outside the West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron on the first day of President Clinton’s peace mission to the region. Her assailant, a 15-year-old Palestinian girl, told investigators after she was apprehended that she had acted alone. She added that she decided to attack a Jew after reading from the Koran the previous day.
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