Two Israeli police officers were wounded in two separate Palestinian stabbing and shooting attacks Thursday morning in the occupied West Bank, police said.

The first incident occurred near the village of Uja, north of Jericho, where a Palestinian woman stabbed a policeman, slightly wounding him in the shoulder, said police spokeswoman Luba Samri.

The woman was arrested without injuries.

The shooting incident happened overnight in the Rachelim Junction, south of Nablus, where a policeman was slightly wounded when a police vehicle came under fire.

Security forces are searching for the shooters, Samri said.

The incidents were the latest in a five-month flare-up, with almost daily violence in the West Bank and Israel. At least 170 Palestinians and 28 Israelis, an American, an Eritrean, and a Sudanese have been killed since October. Endit

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