There were at least four attacks by Palestinians in Israel on Tuesday, including a stabbing spree which killed a visiting American student shortly after Biden landed in the country.
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Martin Indyk “agreed that a Security Council resolution need not be punitive for Israel” (NY Times), and could be effectively modeled on a United Nations resolution adopted after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which called for Israeli forces to withdraw from occupied territories and for the establishment of a lasting peace.
“I don’t know exactly whether it was a hundred meters or a thousand meters”, Biden, on a visit to Israel, told reporters about Tuesday’s assault.
Israeli police say two Palestinian gunmen who carried out shootings in Jerusalem were shot and killed by police.
A Palestinian assailant in the city of Jaffa killed an American man and injured six Israelis in a mass stabbing attack before being shot dead by police.
Taylor Force, a 28-year-old Vanderbilt University graduate student and a US military veteran who Biden said served tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, was killed and 11 people were wounded before police shot the attacker dead.
France will not “automatically” recognise a Palestinian state if a Paris initiative to host an global conference to revive Israel-Palestinian peace talks fails, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Wednesday. Israel says they are being incited to violence by their leaders and on social media.
Earlier today two Palestinians from the Kfar Aqab neighborhood of Jerusalem were killed by police after opening fire on a bus outside of the Old City seriously wounding one, said Israeli police.
Palestinians claim east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, as their capital.
“It’s a little bit scary and a little bit jarring”, said Michael Appleby, a warehouse assistant from London, who had arrived to Tel Aviv to visit a friend.
Under heavy security, Biden made an unannounced stop on Wednesday along with three of his grandchildren and his daughter-in-law at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Police said West Bank resident Bashar Masalha stabbed several people close to the port before fleeing and continuing his attack in two nearby locations.
One Israeli was moderately wounded in a terrorist attack in Petah Tikva, located about nine miles south of Tel Aviv.
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Israeli police also stated both of yesterday’s attackers from the West Bank had entered into Israel illegally, and did not possess any special travel or work permits.
