Palestinian ‘Day of Rage’ attacks kill 3 in Jerusalem

Police said both the attacker and victim were wounded.

Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, also known as Arab Israelis, began a general strike on Tuesday.

In another attack around the same time in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish area of Jerusalem, a Palestinian drove a vehicle into a group at a bus stop and exited with a knife.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says two attackers stabbed and shot people on one side of the city and were captured at the scene.

Palestinian rights group Al-Haq accused Israel of “shooting to kill” Palestinian attackers when they are surrounded by armed security personnel and no longer pose a deadly threat.

Since the Jewish New Year last month, five Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a shooting, a stoning and a series of stabbings.

Three new stabbings in Jerusalem spread fear among Israelis on Monday as a wave of violence in which at least 18 Jews have been attacked so far this month continued unabated.

Less than two hours earlier, a terrorist stabbed an Israeli at a bus station in Raanana before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders.

Speaking as a new session of parliament opened yesterday, Mr Netanyahu said: “We are operating against the attackers on all fronts”.

Frustrated Palestinian youths have defied president Mahmud Abbas as well as an Israeli crackdown by staging violent protests in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

“Israelis only know the language of violence, so we will resist”, one masked Palestinian youth told CNN.

Two terror attacks took place at two separate locations in Jerusalem, resulting in the deaths of three Israelis and causing injuries to several others.

Police closed major highways leading in and out of Jerusalem, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency meeting of his Security Cabinet, where police were to present a plan to halt the violence.

A Palestinian stabbed passengers on a bus in Jerusalem on Tuesday, police said, and Israeli media reported that at least eight people were wounded and that the attacker was shot.

A two-man knife and gun attack on an Israeli bus in East Jerusalem killed one Israeli and left 16 injured, said Yonatan Yagodovsky, spokesperson for Israeli paramedic service Magen David Adom.

The Red Crescent said Sunday that 1,021 Palestinians have been wounded by live fire and rubber bullets since October 3. The rumors ignited clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian activists who hurled stones and firebombs at them from inside the mosque, and the violence has spread. Seven Israelis have been killed in the same period.

Hundreds more Palestinians were injured in clashes in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, the Red Crescent added.

Turkey called on Israel “to comply with worldwide law on the Palestinian lands it holds under occupation” and in this framework to “immediately put an end to its provocative arbitrary practices targeting the status and the sacredness of Haram al-Sharif [Al-Aqsa Mosque], as the only way to prevent the escalation of tensions”. He also can not be seen as abandoning what the Palestinians view as their defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam.