Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Kidra identified the mother as 30-year-old Noor Hassan. He said four other Palestinians were wounded, included Hassan’s husband and son. “The policeman was unhurt and other officers reacted swiftly and shot and killed him”.
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Amid the continuing attacks, about 1,600 reserve border police officers have been mobilized in Jerusalem and throughout Israel, the Prime Minister’s office said in a statement over the weekend.
Violence in the territories enters the second week and according to the Israeli daily, Haaretz, the Israeli security forces don’t know how to prevent stabbing attacks and the Palestinian Authority has lost much of its ability to restrain the public. But there appears to be very little he can do to control rock-throwing youths.
Near Nablus to the north, 55 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli army live fire, medics said.
He pulled out a knife, tried to stab an officer, and was shot and killed.
An injured Palestinian demonstrator is helped during clashes at the…
Police said the attack early Monday took place near a gate of Jerusalem’s walled Old City on the predominantly Arab eastern side of the city. The police called it a terrorist attack.
A Palestinian boy was killed near Ramallah on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, and hundreds more were hurt in clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and on the Gaza border.
Israel has said repeatedly it has no intention of allowing any change to the status quo under which Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim prayer is banned.
“We foiled a vehicle bomb attack”, Rafi Cohen, a police commander, told reporters at the scene.
Netanyahu says that amounts to clear incitement to violence and has asked the attorney general to open a criminal investigation against Zoabi.
However, speaking to Al Jazeera from the site of Monday’s incident, witnesses questioned the version of events by Israeli authorities, saying the Palestinian man was not holding a knife. Police say the assailant is apparently Arab and has been detained.
Palestinian protesters run for cover during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 11, 2015.
At the start of the month, Palestinians shot two Israeli settlers to death in front of their children in the West Bank.
On Sunday, three Palestinians were killed and four Israelis were injured as violence continued to spread across the region. An Israeli motorist was previously killed when his auto was pelted with stones on the eve of the Jewish New Year.
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Gaza had been mainly calm amid the week’s unrest elsewhere, but clashes on Friday and Saturday exacerbated fears that a wider Palestinian uprising, or intifada, could erupt.
