The attack came shortly after Israeli occupation police said they shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab police officers in annexed east Jerusalem.
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Hatem Abed Hafez Shlwdi is now the fourth Palestinian that has been killed by Israeli soldiers within the last 48 hours.
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.
On Friday, three Palestinians and one Jordanian were shot and killed by Israeli forces in separate areas across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The incident was a ramming attack, according to the Israeli military.
The fatal shooting of Shaludi marked the latest in the spat of killings of Palestinians and stabbing and shooting attacks against Israelis that has gripped Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories since October 2015.
On Friday afternoon, a bus driver was also lightly wounded when unidentified perpetrators threw rocks and glass bottles full of paint at his vehicle on the highway between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement.
Shortly afterward, in the West Bank two Palestinians rammed their auto into a bus stop, wounding three Israeli civilians, the military said. A second soldier shot him dead.
Settlement-building, racial discrimination, confiscation of identity cards, long queues at checkpoints, as well as daily clashes and the desecration of Al-Aqsa mosque, describe Palestinians’ daily suffering. Three civilians were injured and evacuated for treatment.
Saturday’s attack comes a day after three other attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem, which have ended several weeks of relative calm.
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, condemned Israel for the “extra-judicial killings” of this weekend’s attackers but did not condemn the assaults themselves. It was not immediately clear if he was a Jordanian national.
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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.
