Friday’s attack was the first in Jerusalem since October 17, when a Palestinian assailant attempted to stab Border Police officers before being shot and killed.
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On Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said an eight-month-old baby had died in a West Bank village as result of inhaling teargas fired by the Israeli military in the area.
Increased visitor numbers by religious Jews to Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque plaza have spurred Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a “status quo” by which Jewish prayer there is banned.
But a Palestinian official in Hebron said Friday that the return of a few of the bodies was an Israeli step aimed at restoring calm in the city after a wave of daily violence, Ynet reported.
Both youth from Hebron city were killed when Israeli soldiers opened gunfire at them at a bus stop near Gush Atzion illegal Israeli settlement located between the southern West Bank cities of Hebron and Bethlehem.
The city has seen frequent clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting against the occupation.
Israeli forces stand in a street during clashes with Palestinian demonstrators in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil, on October 30, 2015.
Yesterday, dozens of protesters outside the site, known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque, condemned restrictions on access imposed by Israel, which has split it into a mosque and a synagogue. One Israeli Arab attacker has also been shot dead.
At least nine Israelis have been killed in attacks by Palestinians during the same time period.
Amnesty global, which this week accused Israeli forces of “using lethal force against anyone they perceive as posing a threat, without ensuring that the threat is real”, also said several shot attackers had not been given medical assistance.
They included 377 homes within the Yakir settlement, 187 in Itmar and ninety four in Shilo within the northern West Bank, in addition to ninety seven extra in Sansana within the south of the occupied Palestinian territory, it stated.
A few 2,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed in the 50-day war in July and August 2014, as well as 73 people on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers.
“Israeli forces must fulfil their duties to protect Palestinian civilians living under occupation from attacks by settlers, work to prevent settler violence, and hold those responsible to account, particularly in Hebron”.
One Palestinian was buried separately in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem while another was laid to rest late Friday in the West Bank town of Jenin.
Tensions in the occupied territories have dramatically escalated in recent weeks.
Ahmad Hamada Qneibi from Kafr Aqab died of his wounds after being shot by police in Jerusalem.
The Israeli military did not provide details.
It also cited examples “in the last 40 days of Israeli aggression”.
Abu Anan, a medic with Red Crescent, said Israeli forces had fired teargas into the house during clashes between the army and Palestinians.
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Other attacks in the Israeli cities of Kiryat Gat, Beit Shemesh, Petah Tikva and at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank have been carried out by Hebron residents.
