He said four other Palestinians were wounded, included Hassan’s husband and son.
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An unnamed witness quoted by the Palestinian news agency Maan said the woman had experienced an electrical malfunction with the vehicle, causing a small fire and the airbag to deploy.
Jaabis shouted “Allah Akbar” (God is greatest) before the explosion went off, according to the security forces.
The officer, who was wearing a protective vest, was not injured.
Four Israelis have died in such attacks since last month.
In downtown Jerusalem, Israeli police said they arrested three young Israeli girls suspected of attacking a Palestinian employee at a store with pepper spray. The man approached the area from a cemetery to the north. Police officers became suspicious and asked him to take his hands out of his pockets, at which point he took out a knife and tried to stab one of the officers.
Close friends of the Palestinian’s family identified him as Mustafa al Khateeb, an 18-year-old from East Jerusalem who was in his a year ago of high school.
The second incident occurred near Israel police headquarters also in the capital, the police spokesman said.
“Israelis only know the language of violence, so we will resist”, one masked Palestinian youth told CNN.
Israel’s military said it targeted “two Hamas weapon manufacturing facilities” overnight after Gaza fighters fired two rockets and following Palestinian attempts to infiltrate southern Israel.
At the start of the month, Palestinians shot two Israeli settlers to death in front of their children in the West Bank.
Gaza officials say the resulting airstrike killed civilians in a nearby house. An IDF spokesman said the action was in response to renewed rocket fire on Israel.
On Sunday night, another rocket crashed into an open field in southern Israel without causing harm on injury, the army said.
Israeli police say a Palestinian woman has lightly wounded a police officer in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem. Border police responded by shooting and killing the Palestinian, she said without providing details on his identity.
Security forces are confronting a spate of knife attacks against Israelis, mainly by Palestinians.
It comes on the same day as an attack by a Palestinian woman at a checkpoint in the West Bank.
Violence has spread from Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Israel’s interior and Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Dozens of Israelis and more than 1,000 Palestinians were injured in the past week amid the surge in violence, Israelis wounded in stabbing attacks and from rock throwing, and Palestinians injured mostly by riots dispersal measure deployed by Israeli security services, including live fire, rubber bullets and tear gas.
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He said Ms. Zoabi had been quoted in a Hamas-linked publication calling for thousands of Palestinians join “a real intifada”, or an uprising against Israeli occupation.
