It’s the latest incident in weeks of nearly daily Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces.
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Levy said that Israel must make work hard to end the current wave of violence and must make sure that there are no Palestinian deaths at the holy site itself.
Palestinians, noting that the settler population in the West Bank has more than tripled since the 1993 Oslo peace accords, have no faith that Israel genuinely wants to relinquish enough territory for them to establish a viable state.
Israel says a campaign of lies and incitement by the Palestinian leadership is to blame for the violence.
Israel has freed a Palestinian who earlier this year conducted an unprecedented 66-day hunger strike.
Allan was welcomed home by friends and family in the West Bank village of Einabus. In fact, the boy was recovering in an Israeli hospital.
Israeli leaders across the political spectrum fiercely condemned the violence and vowed to apprehend the assailants.
Palestinian News Agency reported that Allan had previously twice slipped into coma during his initial hunger strike, which he began in June after being held without charge since November 2014.
“When I took over in 2000 I took away the police officer’s guns and left them only with riot gear”, Levy said. “People here are concerned that the attack might happen again”. Palestinians said the station had urged people to join stone-throwing demonstrations but nothing more.
Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan gestures upon his release from an Israeli jail, at his house in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday. One of the two Palestinian attackers was a teenager from Hebron, police said. Only 75 indictments have been filed, according to the group. “It is better for us now to go and die since we are living like the dead”.
The law places a minimum sentence of three years on offenders and strips rock throwers of their social security benefits, a punishment that applies to Palestinians in east Jerusalem who have Israeli residency rights. But police say they have occasionally kept Muslim worshippers from entering the area, if a large group of Jews were visiting and they feared violence.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority has claimed that Israel has been harvesting organs from the bodies of Palestinian terrorists that were later returned.
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The Palestinian Authority’s committee on detainees, for its part, has accused the Israeli army of arresting children in many cases.
