In this Sunday, November 1, 2015 photo, Israeli activist Rabbi Arik Ascherman, center, rests in a Palestinian olive grove during the harvest, in the village of Burin near the West Bank city of Nablus.
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The violence erupted in mid-September over tensions at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site sacred to both Muslims and Jews, and quickly spread elsewhere into Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian driver ran over and injured an Israeli border policeman near the West Bank city of Hebron today and was then killed by Israeli forces, police said.
Meanwhile in Jenin district, forces broke into several houses in Jenin city and refugee camp, interrogating homeowners and ransacking and wrecking havoc into their houses, triggering clashes with local Palestinians. Palestinians say the violence is due to a lack of hope of gaining independence after years of failed peace efforts.
It was the latest shooting of a suspected Palestinian attacker since the start of unrest in early October that has triggered fears of a third Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israel. He stressed that they would be installed in cooperation with the Palestinians.
Clashes broke out between stone throwers and Israeli soldiers as the funerals began, and Palestinian medical sources said Israeli fire wounded 12 Palestinians.
A 13-year-old Palestinian appeared in court Friday, charged with attempted murder over the stabbing and serious injury of two Israeli schoolboys in occupied east Jerusalem, the Israeli justice ministry said.
Iour Israelis were stabbed in separate attacks on Monday, while a Palestinian teenager who reportedly tried to knife a soldier was shot dead.
Palestinians stress that the status quo they refer to is the one that was enforced before Israel occupied the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967, and resumed until 2000, when Jordan was the custodian of Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
Before a visit to Germany last month, he asserted that the Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem in the 1940s instigated the Holocaust, saying he gave Adolf Hitler the idea.
Israel says the barrier, which stretches inside the West Bank, is necessary for security, while Palestinians brand it an “apartheid wall”.
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Israeli security officers were questioning the woman and confiscated the weapon.
