Earlier Monday, a Palestinian stabbed two Israeli police officers outside Jerusalem’s Old City and was shot and critically wounded, Samri said.
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“[The Eid al-Adha holiday] and September are always more susceptible to spikes in violent Palestinian activities”, a military official, speaking anonymously, said Saturday.
After a period of relative calm, the defense establishment expects a rise in the rate of attacks ahead of the upcoming High Holy Days.
Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians who tried to stab an Israeli policeman in the town of Hebron, a flashpoint in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli police said on Monday.
On Monday morning, just after 7:30 a.m., 20-year-old Ayman Kurd came up behind two police officers and stabbed them both repeatedly, seriously injuring a female officer and moderately wounding a male officer, according to police.
The Palestinian who was shot was identified as Baha’-Eddin Mohammad Khalil, estimated to be about 30 years old.
According to Israeli media, the 30-year old Israeli army commander sustained stab wounds to his upper body, and other Israeli army soldiers stationed at the guard post shot and wounded the Palestinian suspect.
Six attacks over the weekend – four stabbings, a auto ramming and a rock throwing – caught many Israelis by surprise, as the violence that marked 2015 and early 2016 appeared to have waned in recent months, and raised fears that regular attacks could return.
An Israeli police woman is fighting for her life after being stabbed in the neck by a Palestinian from east Jerusalem, authorities have confirmed. Worldwide powers have criticized Israel’s continued settlement expansion in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, with more than 500,000 Israelis now living in outposts that the global community considers illegal, as well as incitement to violence by Palestinian leaders.
A few hours after the Jerusalem attack, there was fresh violence in Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
A short distance away and less than two hours earlier, Israeli forces shot and killed 18-year-old Fares Moussa Muhammad Khaddour and critically wounded his fiancee Raghad Abdullah Abdullah Khaddour, also 18, at the entrance of the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba just outside of Hebron’s Old City, after the two allegedly carried out a auto ramming attack that left three Israeli civilians injured.
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He said that action will be “increased” against Palestinian incitement to violence on social network sites, and that security will also be stepped up along roads in the West Bank.
