In Hebron, around 2,000 Palestinians crowded outside the Al-Hussein Ibn Ali mosque to mourn Shadi Arafa, who was killed in the same attack.
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Much of the recent unrest has focused on the West Bank city of Hebron, a frequent flashpoint.
This is the latest in a two-month long outburst of violence between Israelis and Palestinians following tensions over a holy site in Jerusalem.
“The army will continue to take all legal steps available to it against the attackers and their accomplices in order to ensure security for the residents of the State of Israel”, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said after that raid. Checkpoints and concrete barriers have been set up in Arab areas of east Jerusalem, where numerous attackers have come from, but sadly authorities failed to halt the apparently spontaneous attacks. But it has struggled to contain the seemingly spontaneous attacks.
A knife-wielding Palestinian stabbed two Israelis to death and wounded a third in a Tel Aviv office building on Thursday.
Later, three people were killed in a shooting and vehicle attack in the West Bank.
Ezra Schwartz, 18, of the Boston suburb of Sharon, was reportedly returning from visiting a memorial to the three young people kidnapped and killed in 2014 when he was ambushed near the settlement of Alon Shvut.
“The al-Khalil radio station has repeatedly broadcasted content which promotes and encourages terror and acts of violence against Israeli civilians and security forces”, the statement added.
“He was all slashed and bloody”.
“There is no immunity for terrorists: We will hold them to account, we will exact a price from their families, we will destroy their homes, and we will cancel their citizenship”, Netanyahu said.
He described a dramatic stand-off with the worshippers standing against the closed shop door as the assailant tried to force his way in.
MA dignitaries and community leaders who knew Ezra Schwartz, the 18-year-old student killed Thursday in a Palestinian terror attack in Gush Etzion, remembered the Sharon native as a loving person dedicated to his Jewish roots, New England Cable News reported.
In a rare occurrence, the 36-year-old Palestinian terrorist from near Hebron, had a legal work permit in Israel.
Though details were still emerging, the army spoke of shots being fired, then of the attacker “intentionally” ramming his auto into the pedestrians.
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A large number of the attacks over the last month and a half have centred on the southern West Bank city of Hebron or the surrounding area, including Gush Etzion, or have been carried out by Palestinians from the area. Two other Palestinians died of wounds they sustained after being shot by Israeli forces during protests on 11 and 12 November.
