In the first incident, a Palestinian rammed a group of Israelis with a vehicle at a junction, wounding four of them, and was then killed by security forces, police said.
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The woman had approached an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank wielding a knife, Israel’s Defence Ministry said in a statement.
The woman pulled the knife out of her bag as the security guard was questioning her, and lunged toward him, stabbing him once.
Scheper-Hughes, the founder of Organ Watch, said: “Israeli organ traffickers have a pyramid system at work that’s awesome…they have brokers everywhere, bank accounts everywhere; they’ve got recruiters, they’ve got translators, they’ve got travel agents who set up the visas”.
In addition, Israel’s security minister, Gilad Erdan, said Palestinians suspects should be shot dead to show future attackers “that they will not survive the attack that they were going to carry out”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will discuss the violence occurring between the Israelis and Palestinians while in the White House Monday.
A wave of knife, gun and auto attacks have hit Israel and the Palestinian territories since the start of October.
Amnesty’s condemnation of what it called a “clear pattern” of such summary killings came as the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces this month rose to at least 61.
Israeli troops, meanwhile, shot and killed a 73-year-old Palestinian woman in what the military said was an attempt to attack them with her auto.
Abu Rdeineh stressed that Jerusalem and the holy sites are a red line and settlements are illegal, adding that Palestinians reject any interim solutions that don’t include the establishment of the Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital, on the foundation of the Arab Peace Initiative and the worldwide legitimacy.
In Israel, where a surge of Palestinian terror attacks has made increased vigilance the price of survival, it only takes a second for a routine moment to turn deadly.
It has become a flashpoint in the conflict, with Palestinians fearing they will be deprived of their rights at Al-Aqsa.
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The latest bloodshed was triggered by unrest at a major Jerusalem shrine revered by both Muslims and Jews, and quickly spread to Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza border. Palestinians say the attacks stem from a lack of hope for gaining independence after years of failed peace efforts. A September 2015 poll said that 65 percent of Palestinians want President Abbas to resign.
