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The army said the violence occurred on Thursday at the village of Hizmeh, north of Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Four Palestinians wounded several Israeli soldiers in separate attacks on Friday before they were shot and killed by Israeli forces, the military said, the latest violence in more than two months of nearly daily Palestinian assaults against civilians and soldiers.
The UN had immediately condemned the attack and even the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, repeatedly asked from the Israeli authorities to do more in delivering justice.
Israel on Thursday demolished the West Bank home of a Palestinian accused of masterminding the killing of a Jewish settler couple, the army said.
This is the third attack in the last 24 hours against Israeli citizens. “Four months have passed since the arson attack against the Dawabsha family”, he said.
The ongoing violent tension flared yesterday between Israel and the Palestinians, where two Palestinian young men were killed in the West Bank and two injured in the Gaza Strip, according to medics.
It is unusual for Palestinian security agents to be implicated in such attacks.
Israel says demolitions act as a deterrent to potential attackers, while rights groups and Palestinians say it amounts to collective punishment, forcing family members to suffer for acts committed by someone else.
Earlier in the day, two Palestinians attacked a soldier with knives in the city of Hebron, also in the West Bank, wounding him before Israeli troops shot and killed them, the military said.
A Palestinian Authority intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with protocol, said the shooter was a Palestinian intelligence officer.
Israeli forces have killed 102 Palestinians in the same period, of whom 63 were identified by Israel as assailants or caught on camera carrying out assaults, while most others were killed in clashes with police or the military.
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Since mid-September, 19 people have been killed on the Israeli side from Palestinian stabbings, shootings and vehicular attacks.
