A Palestinian fatally stabbed two people in a Tel Aviv office building and three other people were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli police and the army said.
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Violence since the start of October has killed at least 86 people on the Palestinian side, including one Arab Israeli, 15 Israelis, an American and an Ethiopian. The military said forces at the scene shot at the attacker, although the attacker’s condition was not known.
The two men were attacked in a shop on the second floor of the Panorama office building where a group of Israelis had gathered to hold afternoon prayers.
“Terror is everywhere, if it happens on the streets of Israel, in a concert venue in Paris or in any other place where radical Islam infiltrates in order to harm normal daily life”.
Mladenov said that in recent days, the epicentre of violence has moved to Hebron, which like Jerusalem, has holy sites revered by both Muslims and Jews and has been a Cause of friction for decades. She said he was a 24-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Dura.
Luba Samri, an Israeli police spokeswoman, said troops were searching for a possible accomplice of the attacker, the Associated Press news agency reported.
He possessed a permit to work in Israel and was employed by a restaurant in Tel Aviv, police said, the Times of Israel reported.
Three alleged attackers were captured after separate incidents in Tel Aviv and the Gush Etzion Israeli settlement.
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.
On Wednesday, November 18, Israel Police foiled a potential terrorist attack against Jewish worshipers in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
An Israeli man, a Palestinian man, and a teenage American tourist and were all killed on Thursday evening when an Palestinian gunman opened fire from his auto before ramming it into another vehicle.
Thursday’s violence brings the number of Israelis killed in the wave of violence to 17. “This is a fight the West can not compromise on”, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon commented in response to the attacks.
Under interim peace agreements, Israel controls cellular networks in the West Bank.
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Abu Khdeir’s attorney Mohammad Mahmoud said the ruling delivered an “extremely light” punishment that “gives (police) a free hand”.
