Luba Samri, Israeli police spokeswoman, said officers noticed the Palestinian acting suspiciously and ordered him to take his hand out of his pocket. Against a backdrop of Muslim protests over Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa plaza, Islam’s third holiest site and also revered by Jews as the site of biblical temples, Palestinians have been attacking Israelis with knives, rocks and, on at least one occasion, guns.
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Stabbing attacks have killed two Israelis and wounded around 20.
Israel said it had targeted “two Hamas weapon manufacturing facilities” in response to two rocket launches at Israel yesterday, as well as a number of attempts by Palestinians to violently break into Israel from Gaza.
Israeli army troops also abducted 33 Palestinians in overnight raids throughout the West Bank. The strike brought down a nearby house, killing a Palestinian woman and her daughter according to Palestinian sources.
Frustration has boiled over into violence as Israel continues to build Jewish-only settlements throughout the West Bank in defiance of global law.
Late Sunday an Arab citizen of Israel stabbed four Israelis near the northern town of Hadera, seriously injuring a 19-year-old woman before he was apprehended, a police spokesman said.
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The attack near the kibbutz was the 15th stabbing of Israelis since October 3, but the first by an Arab Israeli to cause injury – rather than by Palestinians from east Jerusalem or the West Bank.
A return to bombings, a hallmark of a second Palestinian uprising from 2000-2005, would mark a significant turning point in the current violence.Rafi Cohen, a police commander, described the vehicle as a auto bomb and said “the woman terrorist who drove the vehicle meant to reach Jerusalem”.
“The terror of suicide bombers did not vanquish us then, and the terror of knives will not beat us now”, he said.
Recent days have seen a series of attacks by young Palestinians wielding household items like kitchen knives, screwdrivers and even a vegetable peeler.
The Red Crescent medical service says over 500 Palestinians have been wounded in the West Bank, including about 100 from live fire.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Palestinians carried out three stabbing attacks against Israelis and police in Jerusalem on Monday and two of the attackers were shot dead, Israeli police said, as a wave of violence continued.
Four Israelis have been stabbed to death.
Federica Mogherini, the European Union foreign policy chief, in a phone call with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday, urged for an end to violence and the proportionate use of force.
One revenge stabbing has occurred, with a 17-year-old Jew in the southern Israeli city of Dimona wounding two Palestinians and two Arab Israelis on Friday.
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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.
