Reports suggested two Israelis were injured when the woman tried to stab them. Police said the two victims, one 16 years old and the other 20, were seriously wounded. The second person has serious wounds, he said. The man was subsequently shot dead by police in the vicinity.
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The woman suffered burns to 40 per cent of her body, Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital said, and the officer was also hurt. “Then, suddenly I heard shots and saw one of the girls injured on the ground”. Police said it appeared to be an unprovoked attack.
The police officer was unharmed in the clash, Samri said.
Israel says the group, which runs education and religious services for Israeli Arabs, has incited violence by spreading lies about Israel’s supposed intentions regarding a sensitive Jerusalem holy site which is sacred to both Muslims and Jews. The Israeli military said soldiers responded by firing warning shots.
According to police, the attacker stabbed the policeman after being stopped when he was seen acting suspiciously.
The officer was said to be “lightly wounded” and the woman was critically injured.
Israel says it launched an airstrike in the Gaza Strip Sunday after absorbing rocket fire from the region.
Palestinian kicks a tear gas canister during clashes with Israeli troops near Ramallah, West Bank, Saturday, October 10, 2015.
Israeli police are reporting that a Palestinian man attacked an Israeli officer with a knife and was shot dead by police. The police called it a terrorist attack.
Nine Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces along the border area.
The woman, from Jericho in the West Bank, shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) before the device went off. It was not clear whether she meant to carry out an attack at that location or elsewhere.
The Red Crescent said Sunday that 1,021 Palestinians have been wounded by live fire and rubber bullets since October 3.
“Clashes in Gaza, meanwhile, are getting very violent, but we don’t have any death tolls because medical workers there are overworked”, said Fuqaha.
Hamas has already branded the spiralling violence between Israelis and Palestinians an intifada and called for further unrest. But others have dismissed that label, saying the unrest is simply the effect of the absence of any move toward peace.
The tensions were triggered by the Tel Aviv’s imposition on August 26 of sweeping restrictions on entries into the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Israeli settlers’ repeated storming of the mosque. The orders are “a primary preventive and deterrent measure”, according to a statement from Netanyahu’s office.
The site is Islam’s third holiest and is also revered by Jews as the location of two destroyed biblical temples.
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Netanyahu stated at his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that he blames the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel for the explosive violence.
