Earlier Friday, two soldiers were lightly to moderately hurt in a car-ramming attack at the Kfar Adumim Junction, north of the West Bank city of Ma’ale Adumim and east of Jerusalem.
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Near a main gate of Jerusalem’s walled Old City, the Palestinian pulled out a knife and stabbed a border policeman in the neck.
Yehya Taha, 21, was shot in the head and later died, according to Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Mohammed Awawdeh. Forensics are working at the site.
Israeli security forces and ZAKA personnel near the body of a terrorist at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on November 29, 2015.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says Israeli forces have arrested some 2,400 Palestinians, half of them children, since the beginning of October.
Attempts to ease the tensions, including a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, have so far proved unsuccessful.
According to The Marker, he noted that Israel stopped handing out work permits to Palestinians after a resident of the West Bank village of Dura stabbed two Israeli worshipers to death at the Panorama building in south Tel Aviv.
The military said it shut down the “Dream” radio station overnight, marking the third time Israel has closed a Hebron station it accuses of inciting violence.
Salah was recently sentenced to 11 months in prison for having called in 2007 “every Arab and Muslim to help the Palestinians and to launch an Islamic intifada” at the Temple Mount, sacred to Muslims and Jews.
Two other Palestinian radio stations – one in Hebron and one in Jenin – said they have received letters threatening closure.
An Israeli army spokesperson said nine of those detained in the occupied West Bank were from the southern district of Hebron, three of which were detained for allegedly being “Hamas operatives”.
He announced tighter controls on Palestinian vehicles and an increase in the number of so-called “bypass roads” which create separate routes for Palestinians and Jewish settlers.
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The group says its activities are lawful. Many of the Palestinians involved in the current round of violence have come from there.
