Netanyahu Cancels German Visit as Violence Spreads Across Israel

The assailant wasn’t immediately identified, but police said the motive for the attack was “nationalistic”, giving no other details.

“Why? I could give you a new reason every day; the attacks on Al-Aqsa, children killed, the occupation”.

Israelis gather in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem on October 5, 2015, to mark the end of the Jewish High Holidays and protest the uptick in terror across the country.

Halabi was wrapped in various Palestinian flags and held aloft on a stretcher through the crowd.

A Palestinian youth was killed and six others injured, including one critically, during an Israeli raid in East Jerusalem’s Shufat refugee camp on Thursday, medics said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he would not allow his people to be “dragged” into more violence with Israel. The guard opened fire and injured the Palestinian before she could hurt anybody Friday afternoon, Samri said.

Early on Thursday, a 25-year-old Israeli yeshiva student was severely injured as a result of being stabbed in upper body.

In the central Israeli town of Petakh Tikvah a Palestinian from the West Bank stabbed and lightly wounded a man waiting at a bus stop.

Human Rights Watch said Thursday that Israeli rules of engagement vis-à-vis unarmed protesters violated worldwide law, noting that a 13-year-old Palestinian boy had been killed when security forces fired on a crowd in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The victims received light to moderate injuries.

Days later, Halabi killed two Israelis and wounded two more – including a toddler – in a knife and gun assault in Jerusalem, before he was shot dead by police.

Police said that he had tried to grab the officer’s gun after stabbing him.

Netanyahu also ordered security forces to step up punitive measures against Palestinian militants and on Tuesday they demolished the homes of two Palestinians who carried out attacks past year.

Four people, including an Israeli soldier, were stabbed and wounded near a military headquarters in Tel Aviv as a rash of such Palestinian attacks spread to Israel’s commercial capital.

Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the Dimona stabbings. While originally applying the decision only to Jewish Knesset members, Netanyahu has subsequently added Arab politicians in the ban. He said whoever deploys violence will be brought to justice.

The attacker reportedly carried out the attack in revenge for a series of Palestinian attacks this week.

Several minutes later, a Palestinian stabbed a police officer in Kiryat Arba, adjacent to Hebron.

Israel has asked Facebook and YouTube to remove videos it says have been encouraging Palestinian violence against Israelis in the past week.

An Israeli official, who spoke on condition of anonymity under regulations, said Netanyahu ordered the ban on officials visiting the holy site because he was concerned it could spark further violence.

The stabbing of the Israeli man by the 18-year-old Palestinian woman occurred near the Western Wall, a Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem’s walled Old City abutting the al Aqsa mosque complex.

The age limit has been set intermittently in an attempt to ensure calm as it’s mostly younger Palestinians involved in the violence.