“I was traveling towards Jerusalem on Route 443 when suddenly I heard a report on the ZAKA beeper about a stabbing attack at the gas station on 443…” Of them, 56 Israel said were attackers and the rest were killed in clashes between protesters and Israeli forces.
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The wave of violence since October 1 that has left 89 dead on the Palestinian side, including one Arab Israeli, as well as 16 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean.
Several stabbing attacks against Israelis occurred in and around Jerusalem Monday. The Palestinian assailant in that attack was later arrested and taken into custody. Police said one of the girls was killed, while the second was wounded.
A Palestinian man was on Sunday killed after he stabbed an Israeli woman in the West Bank, Israeli authorities said.
A civilian driver, who is a settler serving as the head of a regional committee in the area, noticed the attacker and ran her over, before an Israeli soldier shot her and she was pronounced dead. A hospital spokeswoman said a 51-year-old Israeli was lightly wounded by the auto ramming.
An Israeli woman was killed and her attacker was one of three Palestinians shot dead Sunday as a new round of violence flared up ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under pressure to tighten security and on Monday he discussed a range of new measures in the West Bank.
More than a month of violence in the West Bank shows no signs of calming down.
Israel Police said in a statement posted on Facebook, “The terrorists tried to stab other passersby, but a police sapper finishing up a job nearby identified the terrorists, jumped from his auto with his gun drawn and called on the two to stop and drop the scissors”. “There is no restriction on the actions” of the army or other security services, he said.
The current wave of unrest began in mid-September amid tensions over the Al-Asqa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, which is a site sacred to both Muslims and Jews.
Hadar Buchris, the victim of Sunday’s attack, was buried in a Jerusalem cemetery on Monday. Israel has said it is within its rights to respond with lethal force to potentially deadly attacks.
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Palestinian security officials confirmed she had died of her wounds and identified her as Asheraqat Qatanani, from Askar refugee camp near Nablus.
