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JERUSALEM, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Israel's police launched manhunt for a screwdriver-wielding Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli youth in East Jerusalem and fled on Thursday afternoon.
The incident took place in A Tur, a neighborhood in annexed East Jerusalem.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said that the Palestinian attacked the 18-year-old victim near a bus station, stabbing his neck and back.
The youth was slightly injured, Samri said.
Since mid-September, an outburst of violence has killed at least 220 Palestinians and 34 Israelis.
Israeli leaders accuse the Palestinian National Authority of "inciting" the unrest, while the Palestinians say it is the result of 49 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, home to more than 5 million Palestinians, where they wish to establish an independent state.
