The veteran Israeli leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 along with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for his role in negotiating the Oslo peace accords.
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The army said the man stabbed a soldier, causing mild injuries, before Israeli medics moved the wounded soldier to Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
A Zionist military statement said the Palestinian hero drew a knife during a routine security check in Al-Khalil’s Tel Rumeida neighborhood, wounding the soldier. “The man was reportedly carrying three knives”. He then waved the knives in the air and shouted “Allahu akbar” – or “God is Great” in Arabic – as he rushed at the officers, who opened fire and killed him.
Less than an hour later, a vehicle carrying two Palestinians was rammed into a bus stop near the Kiryat Arba settlement outside Hebron.
Friday’s events followed an incident the day before, when Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man as he fled a military raid in the village of Beit Ula, near Hebron.
Hours after the incident at Kirya Arba, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man who stabbed a soldier in Tel Rumeida, an agricultural and residential area in Hebron, according to the Israeli military.
The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to direct talks with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu in Russian Federation.
In the latest wave of increased violence in the occupied Palestinian territories since October 2015, it is estimated that Israeli troops and settlers are responsible for the killing of at least 225 Palestinians, including unarmed demonstrators, bystanders and alleged attackers.
Palestinians, many of them acting alone and with rudimentary weapons, have killed at least 33 Israelis and two visiting Americans in attacks that have waned in recent months.
A spokesperson for the IDF sad attacks were “just another example of the danger of Palestinian incitement spread through social media”.
The Palestinians, as well as Israeli and worldwide rights groups, say Israel has at times used excessive force to subdue attackers.
Several incidents have been contested and the United Nations has voiced concern over reported “excessive use of force”, calling for independent investigations into each death and injury caused by the security services.
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“Israel is flagrantly employing a systematic and wilful policy of summary executions against the Palestinian people; such provocative acts are in direct violation of global law and conventions”, she said. Previously there had not been an attack in three weeks. “We call on the global community to engage rapidly and effectively before it is too late”.
