A Palestinian terrorist on Sunday afternoon stabbed and killed a 21 year-old Israeli girl, Hadar Buchris, as she stood at a bus stop in the Gush Etzion junction, south of Jerusalem, in the West Bank.

IDF forces who responded to Sunday’s attack immediately shot and killed the suspected stabber, identified as Atzam Tuabata, a 34-year-old resident of Beit Fajar, near Bethlehem in the West Bank.

The victim, who laid unconscious with stab wounds to her upper body, died after being rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

It was the third such Palestinian attack of the day in the West Bank and the second terror attack at the same junction in the last four days. Three people were killed in a terror attack on Thursday, just around the corner from where the bus stop is located.

Sunday morning, a Palestinian taxi driver rammed into an Israeli car and then stabbed one of its passengers, wounded the man lightly in the hand, in the area of the Maaleh Adumim settlement, just outside of Jerusalem. The attacker was killed by one the passengers.

Less than an hour before that, the former head of the Samaria regional council, Gershon Mesika, helped thwart a stabbing attack at the Samaria junction, at the southern entrance to Nablus in the West Bank.

Mesika, who saw a female terrorist trying to stab civilians at the entrance to the Samaria territorial brigade's military base, ran her over with his car.

"I was at the hitchhiking stop picking up passengers, when all of a sudden I saw a big woman chasing after another woman wielding a knife. I veered to the right and ran into her," Mesika told Ynet news website.

Another civilian, who was driving behind Mesika and noticed what was happening, exited his car and opened fire at her, along with IDF troops who were on the scene, shooting her dead.

Following the foiled attack near Itamar, a Twitter page associated with Fatah posted a picture of Gershon Mesika with a target on his face, inciting to violence against him.