The Palestinian got out of a taxi close to a military post near the city of Nablus and began running toward officers with a knife, according to police spokeswoman Luba Samri.
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“The extremely hard conditions under which Palestinians are living, the criminal settler acts, collective punishments, arrests, extra-judicial assassinations, economic siege and the lack of a political horizon are all reasons that created desperation and hopelessness among the Palestinians”, Abbas said.
And in the early hours, clashes in the village of Qatanna, northwest of Jerusalem, resulted in the death of Yahya Taha, 21, who the Palestinian health ministry said was shot in the head.
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that Israel assumes the responsibility of the Palestinian youth reactions, in reference to the current wave of violence that has been flaring between Palestinians and Israel since October.
At a checkpoint near Nablus, Israeli paramilitary police shot dead a Palestinian who they said had charged at them with a knife.
The Israeli army said clashes erupted during a military operation in the town, claiming local residents threw stones and firebombs at the force, and that soldiers reciprocated with riots dispersal means, including live fire.
ISRAELI forces killed two Palestinian protesters in the West Bank yesterday. Abbas reportedly refused to condemn the recent spate of attacks and threatened to hand the keys to the PA over to Israel.
Israel will construct a smart security fence between the West Bank city of Hebron and Israel proper within a year, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told the Knesset on Wednesday, according to the Times of Israel.
“We intend to bring a far more massive barrier there…in light of the bitter experience with the physical damage to this barrier”, Yaalon said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he opposes confidence-building gestures to the Palestinians until the violence subsides.
On Thursday, the commander of Israel’s premier paratrooper brigade, Colonel Nimrod Aloni, said tackling Palestinian violence was a matter of “a great degree of confusion”.
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According to IDF assessments, more than 95% of the attacks have been perpetrated by Palestinian “lone wolves” unaffiliated to any militant organisation, but incited to violence by social media, Hamas’s official media outlets, and Islamic State propaganda.
