A Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron attempted to stab an Israeli soldier on Wednesday and was shot dead, the army and police said.

"A Palestinian attempted to stab a soldier at a military position in Hebron,"  the army said in a statement.

"Palestinian terrorist shot and killed," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld added on Twitter.

Also in the southern West Bank, an Israeli woman was later stabbed and moderately wounded by a Palestinian, the army said in an English-language statement.

"The assailant approached her and stabbed her from behind," it said. "The assailant was detained on site."

The attacks were the latest in a wave of violence that has seen nine Israelis killed by Palestinians in three weeks of knife attacks and shootings.

Sixty Palestinians and one Arab Israeli have also been killed, some of them alleged attackers, while others were shot at anti-Israeli protests.

An Israeli Jew and an Eritrean have also been killed after being mistaken for attackers.

Clashes erupted in September as an increase in Jewish visitors to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound alarmed Palestinians, who fear Israel is seeking to change rules that forbid Jews from praying there.

Since October 3, the violence has spiralled into a wave of near-daily stabbings and shootings.

Source: AFP