The two Israeli victims were taken to an Israeli hospital along with the Palestinian attackers.
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A Palestinian health ministry statement said Khaled Taqatqa, 21, was shot dead by Israeli forces in Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
Israeli police spokesperson Luba Samri said a 20-year-old Palestinian “walked through Damascus Gate and then turned around with a knife in his hand, ran at the officers and attacked them” on Friday.
Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom said medics treated one Israeli in severe condition and another who was in moderate condition.
Chen said he “saw someone trying to get up after taking some kind of hit from a shopping cart, with a knife in his hand trying to get up towards a woman a meter away from him….[the terrorist shot] two bullets to the center of his mass, and the guy fell, thank God”.
Three Palestinians were shot dead on Friday, two while carrying out attacks and a third in clashes, the latest in a more than four months of violence.
While violence erupting in Israel and Palestine is regrettably showing “no sign of relenting”, the United Nations and its Quartet partners are actively seeking the way forward, the UN envoy for the Middle East peace process told the Security Council today, urging both sides to end the long-standing conflict.
During that time, 163 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, the majority said by Israel to be attackers.
Near-daily attacks by Palestinians, mostly stabbings, have killed 27 Israelis.
An armed civilian shot the two 14-year-old assailants, who have been taken to hospital.
On Friday afternoon, troops killed a Palestinian as he tried to ram his auto into them at a junction near the village of Silwad, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Later, a third Palestinian died after being shot during clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
Last year, 500 Palestinians lost their jobs due to SodaStream’s withdrawal from the industrial zone in Mishor Adumim, considered an illegal settlement in the West Bank.
Many Palestinian attackers have been teenagers.
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Mladenov called on both Israeli and Palestinian leaders to provide “a political horizon to their people” and reject incitement by what he called radicals in their own camps.
