The Israel Defense Forces tweeted about two such cases – a 1½ year old child in Nablus hit by a rock thrown at an Israeli vehicle and a Palestinian man, struck by rocks near Hebron, was treated by Israeli troops.
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In Wednesday’s first attack, an Israeli man in his 30s was stabbed from behind in his upper body, sustaining moderate injuries, as he walked near the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif complex in Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli police said.
A suspected Palestinian militant stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier, snatched his gun, and was then shot dead by special forces on Wednesday, police said, as a surge of violence prompted Israel’s prime minister to cancel a visit to Germany. The man, who was armed, quickly drew his pistol and shot his attacker.
Both were injured, the stabber critically and the shooter moderately, she said. The shooting happened on a section of road linking two Jewish settlements that passes close to the Palestinian town of Beit Sahir and has been the scene of frequent clashes between settlers and Palestinians.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says civilians apprehended the attacker and police later detained him.
He says he is committed to “peaceful popular resistance” though he backs protesters who recently barricaded themselves inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque and clashed with Israeli police. Israel has imposed the ban at times of unrest in the past as it is mostly young Palestinian men who take part in the violence.
Israeli-Palestinian violence has been on the rise since mid-September amid clashes at a Jerusalem shrine holy to both Jews and Muslims.
This is the first such attack that has taken place outside Jerusalem and the West Bank in the recent wave of violent clashes.
The sensitive site in Jerusalem has been at the heart of the recent Israeli-Palestinian unrest.
It was the latest act of Palestinian violence in a week in which bloody attacks killed four Israelis and injured several others.
Soon after a police officer was injured after being attacked and stoned by Palestinians in the Old City.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, fed up with years of diplomatic paralysis and unpopular with his public, does not want to appear to be caving in to Israeli pressure. That, in turn, sparked angry threats from several Arab lawmakers who said Netanyahu had no moral authority over them.
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In the early evening another 30-year-old Palestinian terrorist in his auto tried to break through a security checkpoint near Ma’aleh Adumim in an attempt to run over security forces, the IDF said. She was able to flee before security forces arrived, Rosenfeld said, adding that seven cars were damaged in the area. He reportedly was subdued and taken in for questioning.
