The attacks on Sunday are the latest in a series of deadly stabbing incidents attributed to the Palestinian-Israeli tensions since mid-September.
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Weeks before, two 16-year-old Palestinians were shot dead at the checkpoint, one of whom was run over and shot by prominent Israeli settler Gershon Mesika after he said she was attempting to carry out an attack.
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A Palestinian man tried to stab an Israeli policeman on Saturday near the Old City and was shot dead by other officers, a police spokeswoman said.
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In July 2015 seven people were killed in a similar attack when gunmen stormed a police station in nearby Gurdaspur district. The foreign secretaries of both nations are scheduled to meet in Islamabad later this month.
The fourth Palestinian, who died in clashes with the Israeli military in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank, was hit in the head by live fire, according to Ahmad Bitawi, the director of Ramallah hospital.
‘An initial inquiry suggests an additional soldier was injured as a result of the fire directed towards the attackers, ‘ the military said in a statement.
According to the Israel Police, the terrorist, 30, was held by a nearby security guard after the attack until police officers arrived at the scene.
Palestinian eyewitnesses said that Mahdeya Hammad is a mother of four children and was killed while driving her vehicle in an area where dozens of Palestinian young men and Israeli soldiers were clashing.
The surge in violence since October has been fueled by Palestinians’ frustration over Israel’s 48-year occupation of land they seek for an independent state and the expansion of settlements in those territories which were captured by Israel in 1967.
The Jerusalem attack was the second knife assault by a Palestinian terrorist since Wednesday, when two attackers stabbed to death Rabbi Reuven Birmacher, 45, and Ofer Ben Ami, 40, near the Old City’s Jaffa Gate.
Also stoking the violence has been Muslim opposition to stepped-up Israeli access to Jerusalem’s al Aqsa mosque complex, which many Jews revere as a vestige of their biblical temples.
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Israel blames the Palestinian attacks on incitement.
