Palestinian protester kicks a burning tyre during clashes with Israeli troops near Nablus.
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Late Sunday, an Arab citizen of Israel stabbed four Israelis near the northern city of Hadera, seriously injuring a 19-year-old girl, before Israeli police apprehended him, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
A 13-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. A spokesman for the prime minister said the mobilization of 13 companies, in addition to three mobilized last week, was a “primary preventive and deterrent measure”.
The attack took place near the Lions Gate of Jerusalem’s walled Old City on the predominantly Arab eastern side of the city.
Israelis have faced days of multiple Palestinian stabbing attacks.
The policeman had spotted a “suspicious” vehicle near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim and ordered the woman to stop. There were conflicting reports as to exactly what happened.
On Sunday, a Palestinian female motorist detonated a bomb she was carrying after being pulled over by Israeli police in the occupied West Bank, wounding herself and an officer, police said, as cited by Reuters.
But a bus driver and eyewitness to the incident told CNN that there appeared to be a malfunction in the woman’s auto and that there were smoke and fire coming from the back seat area of it after she was stopped by the officer.
The Israeli Defence Force said it carried out airstrikes in Gaza targeting Hamas weapons manufacturing facilities in response to renewed rocket fire toward Israel.
Since August 26, Israel has imposed restrictions on entries into the al-Aqsa Mosque.
An Israeli security official, in a cabinet briefing on Sunday, charged that senior members of the Palestinian Authority and Abbas’s Fatah party were inciting violence.
Samri said the man then attacked an officer with a knife, adding that the officer was wearing a protective vest and was not injured.
At least 11 Palestinians died in the past week, a few in clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank and east Jerusalem and Gaza protests. “The policeman was unhurt and other officers reacted swiftly and shot and killed him”. An Israeli airstrike that caused a house to collapse killed a pregnant woman and her 3-year-old daughter Saturday.
Around 25 Palestinians have been killed amid the unrest, including alleged attackers.
Thousands took the streets over the weekend in protests against the Israeli government and the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, since the 1967 Mideast War.
The border police constitute the front line force in situations of quasi-terror and mass confrontations such as has prevailed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for the past two weeks. Fierce clashes additionally broke out near Nablus after Palestinian safety services reportedly tried still did not forestall demonstrators from reaching an Israeli checkpoint.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent earlier Sunday reported 77 more Palestinians who were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, as well as 208 who suffered excessive tear gas inhalation.
