Friday’s third incident took place in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood of Hebron in the occupied West Bank when Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man who allegedly attempted to stab a soldier.
Advertisement
In the first Friday attack, a man came out of Jerusalem’s walled Old City brandishing a knife in each hand, police said.
“There is a lot of concern here between Palestinians and Israelis that if something is not done in terms of a peace process, then these attacks are just going to continue”, Al Jazeera’s Khan said.
And a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier on Saturday in the flashpoint West Bank before he was shot dead, the Israeli army said. One Palestinian was killed, the other wounded and arrested.
Two of the commission’s lawyers, Iyad Misk and Tareq Barghouth, appealed for immediate intervention to put a stop to Israel’s policy of slow death practiced against Palestinian hungers strikers.
The wave of violence since last October has killed 227 Palestinians, 34 Israelis, two Americans, one Jordanian, one Eritrean and a Sudanese, according to an AFP count.
Israel says Palestinian officials and social networks are stoking anti-Israeli incitement, which is leading to attacks.
How many people been killed in the violence since past year?
To the south, Israeli troops near the entrance of Kiryat Arba, an Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron in the West Bank, shot at a vehicle that had tried to run down Israelis, the authorities said. “We call on the global community to engage rapidly and effectively before it is too late”.
Three young civilians were lightly injured, Israeli medics said.
An army spokeswoman said they had been rioting.
Palestinian leaders charge that the violence is a result of collapsed peace talks, Israel’s ongoing military occupation of the West Bank and its expansion of settlements on land Palestinians claim as part of their future state.
The weekend assaults were the latest violence in a year of Palestinian attacks that at times have been near-daily occurrences but have recently been on the decline.
“Despite warnings by the global community and the region, leaders on both sides have failed to take the hard steps needed for peace”, Ban said Friday. Israel says the vast majority were attackers.
Advertisement
Using strong rhetoric, the UN General had this to say in response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s claims: “Let me be absolutely clear: settlements are illegal under worldwide law”.
