Palestinian fatally stabs Israeli girl, 13

A Palestinian stabbed a 13-year-old girl to death inside her home in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, before guards shot him dead, the military and hospital officials said.

A member of the response team that killed the assailant was also wounded in the incident, said an official from the Kiryat Arba settlement, near the city of Hebron.

Over the past eight months, Palestinians have killed 33 Israelis and two visiting US citizens in a wave of street attacks, mostly stabbings.