A Palestinian terrorist armed with a knife murdered two Israelis and moderately wounded a third during a rampage in a southern Tel Aviv office building on Thursday afternoon.
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According to AFP, security services are searching for a man who fled the scene, and police are calling it a “confirmed terrorist attack”.
On Thursday, a pair of stabbing and shooting attacks carried out by Palestinians killed three Israelis, a Palestinian and an American teenager in one of the deadliest days of the recent outburst. Of them, 52 are said by Israel to be attackers and the rest were killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
One victim remains in a serious condition, with two sustaining moderate injuries and one light injuries.
Israeli police say at least 50 of the Palestinians killed were attackers.
The wave of violence, much of which has been focused in and around Hebron, has left 86 dead on the Palestinian side including an Arab Israeli, as well as 15 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean.
Palestinians point to a near 50-year occupation of the West Bank and no progress towards a Palestinian state.
Police imposed a blockade on the city, closing all exits and entries while helicopters were sweeping the skies in search of the assailant.
Pollard was granted Israeli citizenship in 1995 and his family says he wants to settle in Israel, but under the terms of his release he can not leave America for five years.
Kerry last met with Netanyahu in Berlin in October to try to end a spate of bloodshed and stop what Washington regarded as provocative statements by Israeli and Palestinian leaders over the management of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque.
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli security forces shut down a local Palestinian radio station in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron, El-Halil Radio, the station’s manager and the Israeli army said.
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The watchdog said in its statement that it “condemns the ongoing violence against Palestinian journalists by the Israeli Occupying Forces”.
