A 49-year-old IDF reservist was stabbed on Sunday by a Palestinian attacker at a gas station near the West Bank’s Rantis checkpoint.

The suspect was later arrested by IDF troops, and the reservist was said to be moderately wounded, and was taken to hospital for further treatment.

According to the IDF, the assailant fled after the stabbing, and was detained a short while later by troops in the nearby town of Rantis, not far from the Israeli city of Elad.

Security camera footage from the gas station shows the reservist paying at the counter when the assailant runs up from behind and stabs him. The attacker then flees, with the soldier appearing to chase after him.

Hebrew media outlets reported that the soldier, who was said to be the father of seven children, managed to shoot at the fleeing attacker after being stabbed, although the stabber succeeded in getting away.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the victim was fully conscious and was treated at the scene before he was sent to Sheba Medical Center for further treatment.

The Kan public broadcaster identified the stabber as Rami Hamze Ballut, and said he had identified with the Hamas terror group, and was a resident of Rantis.

He had a work permit to work in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Shilo, according to Kan, which reported that he left behind a note before the attack in which he expressed his solidarity with Hamas.

Tensions in the West Bank have soared since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught against southern Israel. Israeli troops have carried out dozens of raids in terror hotspots in the northern West Bank in recent months.

The IDF said earlier Sunday that at least four Palestinians were killed in overnight drone strikes in the Nur Shams camp near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. The military said that during the raid, reservists and Border Police officers arrested four wanted Palestinians, and seized two firearms, and that IDF engineering vehicles uncovered explosive devices planted under and on the sides of roads in the camp, which were intended to be detonated against troops.

Last week, the IDF conducted an unusual 60-hour raid in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, in which it said it arrested 60 wanted Palestinians, and seized 50 weapons and hundreds of explosive devices during the incursion that began late Monday.

The IDF said the troops also found more than 10 tunnel shafts, seven labs used to manufacture explosive devices, and five war rooms used by local terror operatives to monitor IDF operations. It said 10 armed Palestinians were killed during the raid, and others were wounded.

Israel says that the Palestinian Authority has lost control of areas of the northern West Bank, allowing terror groups to entrench themselves and launch attacks on Israelis on both sides of the Green Line.

Since the October 7 onslaught by Hamas against Israel, troops have arrested over 2,400 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,200 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, some 280 West Bank Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.