Unrest erupted last month around the Jewish new year.
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Meanwhile, several users commented on the outfits of Palestinians involved in the resistance efforts, which were mainly denim pants and T-shirts, suggesting that the younger generation remained strong in defending their rights despite a few “Westernised” habits.
The suspect was arrested, but large police forces are canvassing the area in search for a second suspect, who allegedly assisted the attacker, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 24 Palestinians, including four children, have been killed in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip since 1st October 2015.
This has been fuelled by an array of issues, among them restrictions on movement around the Old City and al-Aqsa mosque compound; tensions at the checkpoints; the sustained construction of illegal settlements; attacks by settlers on Palestinians and vice versa; home demolitions and peace talks that have yet to effectively promote a higher, equal price on life on the ground.
On Sunday, an Israeli air strike in retaliation for two rockets fired at Israel demolished a house in northern Gaza, killing a woman and her two-year-old daughter. Four other Palestinians were wounded, including her husband and son.
Notes found on the woman suggested she may have been on her way to carry out a suicide bombing, Israeli security officials said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday blamed the Palestinian leadership both in Ramallah and Gaza as well as the Islamic Movement in Israel for inciting to violence against Israelis.
The attacker, identified as an 18-year-old from the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, was asked by police to remove his hands from his pockets as he approached the Lion’s Gate.
Let’s start by conceding that the status quo in which Israel holds the West Bank in a wary partnership with Abbas and the PA is unsatisfactory to both sides. Rosenfeld said that one officer was lightly injured; the condition of the alleged attacker was not immediately clear.
A Palestinian man attacked an Israeli officer with a knife Monday at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City and was shot dead by police, Israeli police said, in the latest attack in the recent wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence. The Israeli military said it was responding to Palestinian demonstrators who had blocked roads and thrown rocks and firebombs at forces.
On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet approved a four-year minimum prison term for those convicted of throwing stones at moving vehicles.
Israel also said Monday that YouTube had taken down Palestinian videos that the Jewish state considered to be “inciting murder”.
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Briefing the media delegation accompanying the president on the six-day, three-nation visit which will take him to Palestine and Israel next, India’s Secretary, East, Anil Wadha said New Delhi also stressed during the meetings that it firmly believed in the UN Nations Security Council resolutions on the subject.
