Two Palestinians, including a teen, attacked Israelis with knives and a vehicle in the occupied West Bank today and were killed when civilians and security forces intervened, the latest in a almost two-month wave of violence.
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On Sunday, a female Palestinian tried to stab two Israeli women at a junction popular with Jewish settlers near the West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli police and military spokespeople said.
The order was given based on the resolution of the ministerial council led by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The raid was carried out in a joint operation involving the IDF, the Shin Bet security service, and the IDF Civil Administration, the IDF Spokesman’s Unit said on Saturday, according to the Hebrew-language Walla website.
In the Gush Etzion region, a 21-year-old Israeli woman was found unconscious following a stabbing.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that these confrontations resulted in tens of citizens being injured by live ammunition and rubber bullets since the above mentioned forces arrived.
Palestinians are furious at the settler violence and a plan by Israelis to change the status quo of the al-Aqsa Mosque, which is Islam’s third holiest site after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.
“This is not terrorism by organisations”, he said at the start of a cabinet meeting.
The Shin Bet on Sunday identified the alleged assailant as Mohammad Tarda, 18, from a village near southern West Bank city Hebron. But more visits in recent years by Jewish religious activists and ultra-nationalist Israeli politicians to the complex, where two biblical temples once stood, have done little to convince the Palestinians. “We want to see bigger changes on the ground to stabilise the situation in a more sustainable way”, he said.
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Kerry met Netanyahu in Washington earlier this month and urged him to “improve conditions for the Palestinians and try to get things moving in a more positive direction”. A Palestinian who clashed with Israeli troops last week died from his wounds Thursday.
