Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since October 1

There have also been multiple protests inside Israel from the country’s own Arab minority, with masked demonstrators clashing with police forces.

An Israeli air strike killed a pregnant Palestinian mother and her three-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip yesterday and police, confronting a surge of stabbing attacks in Israel, said they foiled an attempt to drive a vehicle bomb into Jerusalem.

Netanyahu’s declaration that he is willing to sit down with the Palestinians to talk without any preconditions was both irrelevant – given the new outburst of mostly unorganized Palestinian acts of terrorism ignited by fears (some based on fact and a few on fiction) of Israeli designs on the Temple Mount – and dishonest. Violence has spread from the holy city and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Israel’s interior and Hamas-ruled Gaza. The violence has unnerved a jittery Israel, and prompted the United States on Saturday to call for restraint by all sides.

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

Israel responded by deploying tanks, reoccupying most of the West Bank, and for the first time since 1967 used warplanes against the Palestinians.

That is because they are being orchestrated to a large extent through messages of incitement and false inflammatory information which bounce back and forth between the cell phones and social media networks of young Palestinian and Israeli Arabs hungry for trouble.

Friday, at least seven Palestinians were killed and 90 injured in clashes in Gaza, according to medical sources there.

The woman suffered burns to 40% of her body and the officer was also injured, a spokesman for Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital said.

On the ground, Palestinian police and intelligence are allowing young people to throw stones, AFP journalists noted.

Emergency workers provided initial medical treatment to a 62-year-old man in moderate condition and a 65-year-old man with light wounds at the site of the attack.

One rocket hit an open field in southern Israel and the other was intercepted.

In Gaza, Palestinians again demonstrated along the Israeli border fence, throwing rocks and rolling burning tires.

Meanwhile, a Palestinian suspect infiltrated the Negohot settlement, also referred to as “the Booster community”, near Hebron, the Israeli military said. Israeli experts agree that the attackers are acting individually and not being organized by Hamas or any other group.

“This weekend we have seen clear incitement encouraging the breach of Israel’s sovereignty, violent confrontation against Israelis and threatening the residence of southern Israel”, said IDF Spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner. It was the second rocket attack in 24 hours. An eighth person hurt in those clashes died Saturday from his injuries.

Gaza and the West Bank may be separated by Israeli territory, but both are meant to constitute a future Palestinian state. “Jerusalem and Aksa is part of the religion”, he said.

She exited the vehicle and the explosives inside it detonated, wounding her seriously and the officer lightly.

Palestinian kicks a tear gas canister during clashes with Israeli troops near Ramallah, West Bank, Saturday, October 10, 2015. He was praised for averting a major terror attack by local police chief Rafi Cohen, who said he had no doubt that the woman had meant to drive to Jerusalem.