Security camera footage emerged Monday showing the moment a Palestinian man lunged with his knife at Israeli police officers in Jerusalem over the weekend, stabbing one in the neck and another in the upper body before he was quickly shot by another officer.
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Israeli police say the driver was on her way to Jerusalem to carry out a bombing.
The ministry also condemned the Israeli army’s violations against Palestinian and worldwide journalists who are covering the uprising events in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
The Gaza border has been largely calm since the 2014 war between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas, which rules the coastal territory.
An Israeli security official, in a cabinet briefing on Sunday, charged that senior members of the Palestinian Authority and Abbas’s Fatah party were inciting violence. The woman then stabbed and lightly wounded him before he shot and wounded her, she said.
“We warn the occupation against continuing this foolishness”, said the spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri.
Palestinians have so far not used bombs – a hallmark of their second uprising, from 2000 to 2005 – in the current violence, which Israeli leaders have described as a “wave of terror” falling short of an organised “Intifada”.
At the start of the month, two Israelis were killed in a West Bank shooting attack and two Israelis were stabbed to death in Jerusalem.
An Israeli airstrike killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 2-year-old daughter in Gaza Sunday, a Gaza health official said, while in the West Bank, police said a Palestinian woman detonated an explosive in her vehicle at a checkpoint, injuring an Israeli soldier and herself.
A few Israeli Arabs have also actively supported the protests, mainly by demonstrating in major Israeli-Arab population centres, and a general commercial strike in the Arab sector has been called for Tuesday.
At the Old City’s Lions Gate, paramilitary border police ordered a Palestinian to halt for an identity check, instructing him “to take his hands out of his pockets”, a police spokesman said.
Palestinians have reportedly been attacking Israelis with knives, rocks and, on at least one occasion, guns, against a backdrop of Muslim protests over Jewish access to al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.
Rioting has seen Palestinians throwing stones and firebombs at Israeli forces throughout the West Bank, who have responded with live fire, rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades.
Tensions have been running high between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops since August 26, when the Tel Aviv regime imposed sweeping restrictions on entries into the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Israeli forces killed the boy on Sunday during clashes south of al-Bireh in the Ramallah district, medics said.
