While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and president Mahmud Abbas have sought to avoid an escalation, frustrated Palestinian youths have defied efforts to restore calm and a wave of stabbings has spread fear in Israel.
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There has been growing confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians over the past weeks.
The PA also has no hold over Israeli Arabs who have staged their own actions in solidarity with the Palestinians.
Tanzim was founded by Fatah leaders and is loyal to the Palestinian faction, which is headed by Abbas.
The police officer’s protective vest stopped the knife and he was unharmed. Border police responded by shooting and killing the man, she said, without providing details on his identity.
Mr Netanyahu quoted Ms Zoabi as saying to a Hamas newspaper that “hundreds of thousands of worshippers should go to the Al-Aksa Mosque to stand up against Israel’s conspiracy to condone violence against east Jerusalem residents”.
The First Intifada was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference in 1991.
An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian mother and her three-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip and police said they foiled an attempt to drive a vehicle bomb into Jerusalem, as the bloodshed continues.
Palestinian medical officials said 37 Palestinian protesters were wounded by live gunfire from Israeli troops during clashes on Sunday in the West Bank. One of the rockets had hit an open field in southern Israel and the other was intercepted, while nine Palestinians were killed during the border clashes with Israeli soldiers.
Another Palestinian was shot and injured in Ramallah, where a 13-year-old boy was also shot dead, the statement said.
Officers later released a video to the media showing a body and a knife on the ground but not the alleged confrontation.
They followed this up with attacks that killed two more children on Saturday.
Several protests broke out over the weekend in Arab-majority towns and cities, in which masked demonstrators clashed with police forces.
Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem, including the Old City, from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war. Mistrust of Netanyahu remains high following his election day appeal for supporters to go to the polls, warning them that Arabs were voting “in droves”. He also can not be seen as abandoning what the Palestinians view as their defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam. Another Palestinian young woman was critically injured after a settler shot her in Jerusalem old city. Israel considers the entire city its undivided capital.
Israel’s Interior Minister Silvan Shalom said he is considering revoking the citizenship of Israeli Arabs who have been involved in attacks and taking away residency rights from those in east Jerusalem.
After the man started repeatedly stabbing the officer in the neck, about a dozen officers circled the 19-year-old Palestinian aiming their guns at him.
Violence in the territories enters the second week and according to the Israeli daily, Haaretz, the Israeli security forces don’t know how to prevent stabbing attacks and the Palestinian Authority has lost much of its ability to restrain the public.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent earlier Sunday reported 77 more Palestinians who were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, as well as 208 who suffered excessive tear gas inhalation.
