Gaza Border Violence Kills 4 Palestinians

In an apparent nationalist motivated revenge attack, a Jewish Israeli with a history of mental illness stabbed four Arabs in the town of Dimona.

Barkat said he gave no thought to taking his handgun with him when he toured an area in east Jerusalem this week where violent clashes had taken place and dismissed suggestions that images of a gun-toting mayor might unnerve citizens or tourists. They were shot as they drove in their vehicle with their four children.

The group met Feltman because Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is traveling.

An army spokeswoman said about 200 Palestinians had approached the fence while hurling rocks and rolling burning tyres toward security forces.

Abbas has spoken out against violence and in favour of “peaceful, popular resistance”, but many youths are frustrated with his leadership as well as Israel’s government.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “strongly condemned the harming of innocent Arabs”, saying that anyone who resorts to violence will be brought to justice.

Palestinians have been angered by events at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City and fear Israel wants to change the status quo at the holy site, revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount.

Medics said another 80 Palestinians were wounded, 10 of them seriously.

The Palestinian attacker was shot following a chase. Rosenfeld said the assailant was apprehended at the scene and was being questioned.

He said Israel must do its best to “tell the truth” to calm the tensions, but in the meantime, must do its utmost to stop attacks on its city streets. Earlier, a Palestinian stabbed four Israelis with a screwdriver in Tel Aviv. Israel’s military says the soldiers responded with warning shots before opening fire on the crowd. Samri says the Israeli man was stabbed in the stomach and was evacuated to a hospital. One attacker is killed, two arrested and a fourth flees. Near Tel Aviv, a Palestinian assailant stabs an Orthodox Jew.

“Obviously the police have an obligation to protect the public and stop attacks”, Michaeli said.

The violence has shown no signs of abating, with three stabbing attacks reported Thursday.

Eighty-seven have been injured with live ammunition, and 290 with rubber-coated steel bullets.

Tension was ratcheted up after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on September 30 that he was no longer bound by the Oslo agreement following alleged violations by Israel.

Abbas spoke to business leaders on Thursday in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Sheikh Ra’ad Salah, the leader of the extremist northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, warned Thursday that any action directed at his organization or at Al-Aqsa Mosque will be resisted, according to Haaretz.

The attacks were initially confined to east Jerusalem, where the holy site is located and the West Bank – both territories captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 war and claimed by the Palestinians for their future state. Palestinians have repeatedly barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque there, and hurled stones, firebombs and fireworks at the police.

October 4: A Palestinian attacker stabs and wounds a 15-year-old in Jerusalem. They often identify with Palestinian nationalism. All five victims suffered light wounds.

Recent days have seen a series of attacks by young Palestinians wielding household items like kitchen knives, screwdrivers and even a vegetable peeler.

The border clash the first time since the unrest began several weeks ago that the violence has reached Gaza.

Israeli security forces shoot dead a Palestinian at the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem.

The attack comes after a week of numerous Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.

Both the Wiesenthal Center and the ADL criticized reporting on the Palestinian attacks, with Greenblatt saying he was “especially troubled by the global media’s dehumanizing and irresponsible coverage of the violence”.