Two of the attacks took place in the West Bank city of Hebron, where the Palestinian assailants injured an Israeli soldier and a female paramilitary border police officer with knives before they were shot, according to the Israeli police and military.
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Tel Aviv – An Israeli police officer in Jerusalem shot dead a Palestinian who had allegedly attempted to stab the officer, officials said on Saturday.
Another Palestinian died in clashes in Beit Furik near Nablus, while a Palestinian disguised as a news photographer stabbed and wounded a soldier before being shot dead outside a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Palestinian leaders have been critical of what they call tacit approval of Israeli officers and citizens killing attackers “in cold blood”.
The Israeli military says an Israeli in the West Bank has shot a Palestinian who tried to stab him.
Dozens of Palestinians and at least eight Israelis have been killed since September, majority in stabbings, according to previous global Business Times reporting.
Obama said it’s important for both Netanyahu, Israeli elected officials and Abbas and other people in positions of power to try to tamp down rhetoric that may feed violence or anger or misunderstanding, and try to get all people in Israel and West Bank to recognise that this kind of random violence isn’t going to result in anything other than more hardship and more insecurity.
The mounting death toll has prompted fears of a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising, like those of 1987-1993 and 2000-2005, when thousands were killed in near-daily violence.
The violence, part of two weeks of unrest that is the most serious seen in years, came during a day designated by Hamas – the group, which controls the Gaza Strip – as a “day of rage” against Israel. The syndicate warned against others disguising themselves as press, saying this could endanger the lives of journalists, and also warned the Israeli authorities from using the incident as a pretext to censor Palestinian journalists.
Delattre called for the USA, U.N., EU, Russian Federation and key Arab nations to meet and work on confidence-building measures to ease tensions, support Palestinian reconciliation and draw up “guarantees and compensation that each party will need” in order to sign a peace agreement. The fire was extinguished and the crowd dispersed by Palestinian forces.
France is said to be preparing the draft of a Security Council statement that would appeal for calm and for maintaining the status quo at the Jerusalem holy site Muslims call the al-Aqsa mosque and Jews call the Temple Mount.
A 24-year-old Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli border policeman, and was shot and wounded in the leg in response.
“The state of Israel is fighting with a strong fist against the attackers and those that send them”, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said in an e-mailed statement late Saturday.
Israeli police stand around the body of a Palestinian in Jerusalem Saturday, October 17, 2015. However, he has also told his security forces not to stop Palestinian stone-throwers heading to confrontations with Israeli troops.
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“Let me be crystal clear – Israel will not agree to any worldwide presence on the Temple Mount”, as it is known to Jews, for which it is the most sacred site.
