Gaza: Two killed in Israeli attack on Hamas

Throughout the country, a few 1,300 reserve troops have been called up and deployed.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said it “will continue to respond with severity to any attempts to disturb the calm in southern Israel”.

“After firing warning shots, forces on site responded with fire towards main instigators in order to prevent their advance and disperse the riot”, a statement said.

The Israeli airstrike was an Israeli response to earlier rockets attack into Israel, according to an emailed Israeli army spokesman email.

30-year-old Noor Hassan and her daughter Shahd were killed when their house collapsed following the aerial bombing, Al Jazeera reports.

In Sunday morning’s bomb blast near Jerusalem, a policeman spotted a “suspicious” vehicle close to the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim and ordered the 31-year-old woman to stop, police said.

Palestinians across the West Bank and East Jerusalem – and many inside Israel itself – have protested the restrictions, which they say violate their right to worship. When the officer spoke to her, she said “God is greatest” before exploding the gas canister.

Violence has exploded throughout Israel and the Palestinian territories in the wake of recent restrictions by the Israeli government on the site that Jews call the Temple Mount.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said his people had no interest in further violence and that he was committed to “peaceful popular resistance”.

The stabbing victims in the second attack were in a “moderate” condition, medics said, with a third seriously wounded after being shot by another officer targeting the assailant.

Fourteen stabbing attacks have targeted Jews since October 3, when a Palestinian murdered two Israelis in the Old City, sparking a security crackdown.

Ramallah Government Hospital director Ahmed Bitawi says Ahmad Sharaka was shot dead by three live bullets to the head, neck and chest. Violence has spread from the city and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Israel’s interior and Hamas-ruled Gaza. The toll by midday Sunday was two dead in Gaza.

Since the latest wave of unrest began this month, eight Palestinians have been killed while carrying out attacks and 13 have been killed in protests and clashes in the West Bank and Gaza.

The air raid was the Israeli regime’s latest act of aggression against the blockaded Gaza Strip. Palestinians there burned tires and threw rocks at Israeli troops on the frontier.

Smaller clashes also unfolded in Bethlehem, where tear gas permeated the air.

Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he will not allow any change to the status quo under which Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim prayer is banned, but his assurances have done little to quell alarm among Muslims across the region.

CNN’s Michael Schwartz and Amir Tal contributed from Jerusalem and Ben Wedeman from the West Bank.

At least four Israelis have been killed in terror attacks and several more wounded, including a two-year old baby.

A source in the Palestinian security services said there had been “a malfunction in her auto, and there was no bombing”.

Abbas said earlier this week that he doesn’t want the situation to escalate.

“This is Friday, this is the day of rage…” Dozens of Palestinian rioters broke through the barrier, the IDF said.

In Hebron, a Palestinian wounded in clashes with Israeli forces on Thursday died on Saturday night. Salah was killed in overnight clashes with Israeli police.

A rise in stabbings and stone throwing attacks by Palestinian youths on Jewish individuals in recent weeks has been condemned by Israel’s leaders. No further details were immediately available, authorities said. No injuries or damage was reported.

Israel’s Channel 2 TV said the attack took place near the site where a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli man to death and wounded his wife and toddler Saturday. The remainder retreated into Gaza.