“She fell and then a soldier came and finished the job”.
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Violence in Jerusalem has been dramatically reduced in recent weeks with the increase in numbers of security officers patrolling the city and a crackdown on the Arab neighborhoods.
The Israeli military said the attack occurred at a junction south of Nablus, adding that “forces and a bystander responded to the immediate threat, shooting the attacker”.
It is unclear whether the auto collision was an accident or intentional, but the Israeli police spokesperson, Micky Rosenfeld, said the Palestinian “walked out of his vehicle with a knife in his hand and was shot dead”.
Yesterday’s attacks were the latest in the wave of violence since October 1 that has killed more than 90 Palestinians.
In an earlier attack, the military said a woman pulled out a knife at the entrance to a military base and began approaching civilians at the spot. Following hours of an extensive manhunt, police forces found the 18-year-old Palestinian hiding late Saturday in the yard of a home close to where he carried out his stabbing spree in the southern town of Kiryat Gat. He escaped, prompting a five-hour hunt, during which residents were told to stay indoors.
The official also called the trip “part of an ongoing dialogue [the U.S.is] having with both sides, going back to the war in Gaza and before last summer, where we’re trying to remain engaged to try to restore calm and stabilize the situation as much as we possibly can”.
Police said one of the attackers was killed, while the second was wounded.
Administrative detention is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows Israel to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months.
It was one of the deadliest days since the violence first erupted in October. At least 16 Israelis have been killed in the same period. Israel claims that numerous Palestiains were killed while carrying out stabbing attacks. He confirmed authorities are working on logistics to place surveillance cameras at Temple Mount, a site in Jerusalem regarded as sacred in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, in an attempt to curb a few of the violence. It also accuses the Palestinians of nurturing a culture of “glorification of martyrs” in which young stabbers are hailed as “heroes” willing to sacrifice their lives for the Palestinian cause.
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The surge in violence began in September, when tensions at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims boiled over, amid rumours that Israel planned to relax long-standing rules to strengthen Jewish rights at the complex.
