Palestinian shot after knife attack on soldier

A Palestinian who tried to stab an Israeli soldier near a holy site in the West Bank city of Hebron has been shot, the Israeli army said.

The army would not elaborate on the condition of the Palestinian, but the soldier was unharmed.

The army said the attack took place near a site known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque, the traditional burial spot of the biblical Abraham and his family.