Rise in attacks prompts Netanyahu to cancel trip

An increase in Israeli visits to the compound have fed fears among Palestinians that Israel is moving to divide the compound into two separate areas of worship for Jews and Muslims.

Israeli and Palestinian officials reportedly met for security talks in the West Bank on Tuesday evening, and there have been worldwide calls for calm.

In other remarks, Netanyahu was far more stern and contentious.

Rami Saleh, director of the Jerusalem Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights, told Anadolu Agency that the apartheid-like decision could draw a strong backlash from Palestinians.

Israeli forces have responded harshly to protests, using live ammunition in a few cases.

But she said Facebook, as a rule, urged people “to use our reporting tools if they find content that they believe violates our standards so we can investigate and take swift action”.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced “incitement” and says that Israel will overcome the current “wave of terror”.

“Demolishing terrorists’ houses and deporting their families is the best deterrent and most efficient way to deal with terrorism by individuals”, Ben-Dahan said. “We will prosecute them, and we will be victorious”.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said publicly he wants to avoid armed confrontation with Israel.

On Wednesday, three similar stabbing attacks were carried out. Another security assessment will be made before Friday prayers.

The woman, a member of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), was assaulted near the Defence Ministry on Begin Avenue, police said.

At least 31 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, according to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ figures.

The location of the seventh known fatality in Gaza was not specified.

A Palestinian man was shot dead in Jerusalem during clashes with police on Thursday, amid an ongoing wave of violence in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Nine Israeli police officers were also injured, Israel’s Channel 2 TV said.

The spokeswoman said those injured had been attacked “for nationalist reasons, because they were Arabs”. After his arrest, the assailant said he acted in retaliation for the numerous Palestinian attacks, Israeli media reported. Police said she had tried to stab a bus station guard, although video footage of the incident did not show that.

On Wednesday, new stabbings occurred outside a crowded mall in central Israel, in a southern Israeli town and in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the Israeli man was arrested after stabbing three Palestinians, less than an hour after he allegedly stabbed another Palestinian man in the same city. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the soldier was moderately wounded in the attack.

Student wounded after stabbing in Jerusalem, and soldier injured in Tel Aviv attack, which leaves attacker dead.

Israeli soldiers detain a wounded Palestinian after infiltrated members of the Israeli forces shot at Palestinian protesters during clashes in Beit El, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 7, 2015.

Several high-ranking Israeli officials have called on civilians to start carrying weapons around the clock, following a spate of stabbings and shootings by Palestinians in Jerusalem in recent days, Ha’aretz reported Thursday.

The Palestinian was shot in the chest and fatally wounded at the Shuafat refugee camp in annexed east Jerusalem, according to the Red Crescent and hospital sources.

Israeli police barred young Muslim men from the sacred Jerusalem site as a measure to ensure calm.

Abbas reiterated the aforementioned remarks Thursday, saying the Palestinians’ “hands are with those who are protecting Al-Aqsa mosque”.

At the same time, violent demonstrations in east Jerusalem and the West Bank have seen youths throwing stones and firebombs face off against Israeli security forces firing rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades. Three others were killed during clashes with Israeli security forces, including a 13-year-old near Bethlehem.