Israeli occupation forces shot dead a man suspected of stabbing a Zionist soldier in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon in occupied Palestine on Sunday.

Israeli occupation forces shot dead a man suspected of stabbing a Zionist soldier in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon in occupied Palestine on Sunday.

Another soldier grabbed the wounded soldier's gun and shot the attacker after the stabbing near a bus station, the police said.

The man was then shot and critically wounded by Israeli forces as he tried to flee the scene before it was announced that he died.