According to police reports, a 28-year-old Palestinian man from east Jerusalem stabbed four people with a knife.
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Ofir Akunis, a minister without portfolio, urged the government to demolish attackers’ homes within 24 hours of violence, and deport their families.
Roads into Jerusalem have been closed off following the deadly attacks.
Palestinian medics say five people have been wounded Tuesday by Israeli gunfire, two of them seriously. The attacker, from east Jerusalem, was shot dead by other officers. Ensuing confrontations inside Israel, the West Bank and along the border with the Gaza Strip have led to the deaths of at least 26 Palestinians, many of them attackers.
Videos of Palestinians stabbing Israelis or calling for such attacks as well as footage of rioters throwing stones at Israeli soldiers have been shared on the Internet.
A 60-year-old man and another passenger were killed and at least 10 people were taken to the hospital for treatment as a pair of attackers lashed out with a gun and a knife.
The Red Crescent said Sunday that 1,021 Palestinians have been wounded by live fire and rubber bullets since October 3. “The videos depict recent terrorist attacks, praise the assailants and present Jews and Israelis in a hateful and racist manner”, said Foreign Ministry.
Several Palestinians have been wounded and detained in clashes with the Israeli army at the Israel-Gaza border fence. The driver also go out a stabbed at least eight people, emergency medical services said.
“The Hamas movement blesses the heroic operations in Jerusalem and hails the heroes who executed them”, the organization’s Twitter account said. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the man was trying to avenge the recent attacks against Israelis by stabbing an Arab. However, he actually attacked another Israeli Jew whom he mistook for an Arab because of his Middle Eastern appearance.
Since the Jewish New Year last month, five Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a shooting, a stoning and a series of stabbings.
On Monday, Palestinians carried out three stabbings in Jerusalem, leaving a teenage Israeli boy in critical condition.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under heavy criticism for failing to stop the violence, and an opinion poll this week showed that more than 70 percent of the public is dissatisfied with his handling of the crisis.
In the third attack, two young Palestinian teenagers stabbed two Israelis in the east Jerusalem settlement of Pisgat Zeev, with one attacker – a 17-year-old – killed and the other, 13, shot and seriously wounded.
In a fiery speech to parliament on Monday, Netanyahu accused the country’s Arab leaders of helping incite weeks of violence.
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The violence has been stirred in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, Islam’s holiest site outside the Arabian Peninsula.
