Israeli police accused them of attacking two Israeli policewomen, killing one.
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Israeli forces raid a village in the northern West Bank and put a blockade on it in a fresh escalation of violence that saw more than 100 extremists also storming the al-Aqsa Mosque.
A familiar pattern was followed by Wednesday’s strike in the bustling road of market booths in the Damascus Gate of the Old City, reports the BBC’s Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem.
They were stopped and as officers began checking one of their ID cards, the other two drew automatic gun and knives and attacked the two officers.
Israel has struggled to contain the violence, despite sending troops to secure cities, expanding police powers and toughening punishments for attackers.
Suha, the mother of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir who was killed in 2014, reacts in a courtroom after the sentences were announced on February 4, 2016 at the Jerusalem district court.
Jamal Zahalka, Hanin Zoabi and Basel Ghattas met this week with the families of three Palestinian attackers whose bodies have not yet been returned to their families, a punitive measure used by Israel.
According to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, Abbas said the objective of the worldwide conference is to “establish a mechanism to reach a settlement for the Palestinian cause, like the mechanisms put to settle other crises in the region”.
Twenty five Israelis and one US citizen were killed in a string of lone-wolf attacks by Palestinians in the past four and a half months.
AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images An Israeli munitions specialist carries a box suspected to contain an explosive device at the site where reported Palestinian assailants were killed following an attack.
The three Arab lawmakers have angered mainstream Israelis before.
Some analysts say Palestinian frustration with Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, the complete lack of progress in peace efforts and their own fractured leadership have helped feed the unrest.
The Israeli Defence Ministry recognized Abu Khdeir as a victim of “hostile action”, granting his family the same compensation rights as the victims of Palestinian attacks.
Rosenfeld said. “We’re seeing a different phase of both equipment and also an increase in the level of the type of attacks that have taken place, so this is something that we’re going to have to assess in terms of security”.
Two of three Israelis convicted of murdering a Palestinian teen in 2014 – a death that prosecutors say was revenge for the deaths of three Israelis days earlier – were sentenced to prison Thursday.
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Earlier, Hamas said two of its militant wing members were killed after a tunnel they were digging from Gaza to Israel collapsed.
