Tel Aviv, Israel — �� An Israeli-American settler in the West Bank was stabbed to death by a Palestinian Sunday, Israeli authorities said.

Ari Fuld, a well-known settler and right-wing activist, was stabbed outside a mall at a major traffic junction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the army said. A spokeswoman for the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem confirmed his death.

The assailant, identified in Israeli media as a 16-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank town of Yatta, was shot by an armed civilian and subdued, the military said.

A video of the incident broadcast on local media showed Fuld, a father of four in his 40s, being stabbed and then firing his gun at the fleeing Palestinian.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Fuld for acting “heroically against the terrorist.”

“America grieves as one of its citizens was brutally murdered by a Palestinian terrorist,” David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said on Twitter.

Fuld was a well-known internet personality who defended the Israeli military and expressed hard-line nationalist views.

Hamas, the Islamist militant group which rules the Gaza Strip, applauded the attacker.

Hamas spokesman Abdulatif al-Qanou said the stabbing attack “reiterates our people’s determination to continue with their intifada of Jerusalem and their legal right in practicing all types of resistance against the occupation.”

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