Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks have killed 21 Israelis and a USA citizen.
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The military said in a statement the two Palestinians had tried to stab soldiers at Bekaot checkpoint.
At the same time, 152 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, most while carrying out attacks.
Meanwhile, Palestinian assailants have killed 23 Israelis, including soldiers and civilians. The two later part ways as she returns to the Israeli city of Tel Aviv and he to Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Palestinians are angry at increasing violence by Israeli settlers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and their attacks on Palestinian properties, saying that the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of the compound.
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the video footage, broadcast by a prominent Israeli current affairs show, “unmasked radicals” whose “hatred for settlements has pushed them over the edge to the point of delivering innocents for torture and execution”.
Some reports said the Israeli forces barred ambulances from reaching the scene and attending to the two Palestinians.
And in November the country’s most famous living author Amos Oz said he would not attend events at Israeli embassies around the world in protest at government policies.
The measure accusing Israel of restricting Palestinian academic activities in Gaza and the West Bank was decisively defeated by a vote of 111 to 50, at the AHA annual meeting in Atlanta.
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Selling land to Jews is punishable by death under strict Palestinian laws, but the courts have not implemented death sentences in recent years and instead hand down heavy prison sentences. Palestinians say it stems from frustration at decades of occupation. The pair were said to have been retaliating for the terrorist murder of Malachi Rosenfeld, 25, gunned down not far from Duma, the village where the fire started by a Molotov cocktail killed Sa’ad Dawabsheh, his wife and their toddler son.
