Two gunmen were shot dead in Jerusalem when they opened fire in the city from a vehicle, seriously injuring a civilian, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
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The shootings were the latest in a string of attacks coinciding with US Vice-President Joe Biden’s arrival on Tuesday. Two policemen were wounded before the attacker was shot by Israeli troops.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri says police arrested about 250 Palestinians from the West Bank who were in Israel without valid permits, as part of a security crackdown since the Jaffa stabbing.
Force, who had been studying at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, is the latest victim in a wave of violence that began in September, and which shows no signs of subsiding, with 29 Israelis and 180 Palestinians having now been killed. Most others were shot dead during violent protests.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly called for peaceful resistance against the Israeli occupation, but has not specifically condemned a wave of knife, gun and car-ramming attacks that erupted in October.
Palestinian leaders say many Palestinian attackers have acted out of desperation in the absence of movement toward creation of an independent state.
Police take finger prints from the body of a Palestinian involved in a shooting attack in Jerusalem Wednesday, March 9, 2016.
Vice President Joe Biden censured the Palestinian Fatah Party Wednesday for glorifying the man who stabbed a dozen people on Tuesday, killing a U.S.
I notified the vice president on the awful incident that took place just a few hundred meters away from here in Jaffa, Peres said, standing next to Biden.
Weapon used by terrorists in attack in Jerusalem this morning.
A Palestinian man sustained light injuries after he was stabbed by an Israeli settler in Barqan illegal settlement east of Salfit city, northern West Bank.
Other Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Islamist movement Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, often praises such attacks.
A short while before that, a Palestinian followed an Israeli into a store and stabbed him in the neck in the central city of Petah Tikvah before he was shot and killed.
“Mr. Biden is only coming to the region in the context of his plans regarding the fight against terrorism in Syria, not for us”, he told AFP, referring to talks between Biden and Netanyahu on the Islamic State jihadist group.
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Ahead of the Ramallah talks, senior Palestinian official Ahmed Majdalani said he was expecting “nothing” from Biden’s visit.
