Three killed, 21 injured in Jerusalem attacks

Attacks occurred in multiple parts of the city Tuesday, including shootings, stabbings and other attacks.

At least one person was killed and one lightly wounded, medics said.The attacker was reportedly shot dead.

Two young Palestinian brothers, 13 and 15 year old, from Beit Hanina in Jerusalem, first stabbed a Jewish man on a bicycle and then slit the throat of a 13-year-old Jewish boy before they were neutralized by police and a passerby. Police said one of the alleged attackers was killed and the second was captured.

In all, seven Israelis and 28 Palestinians, including 10 alleged attackers and eight children, have died in nearly two weeks of street attacks and security crackdowns.

Around the same time, a Palestinian employee of a major Israeli telephone company used his company vehicle to ram into a bus stop.

“Each one of the killers had said he or she was prepared and even happy to die for the cause of murdering Jews”, he says. A surveillance video showed him getting out and hacking at pedestrians with a cleaver until he was shot dead by a passer-by.

Gaza’s Hamas rulers have praised the attacks in Jerusalem.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, a Palestinian attacker stabbed an Israeli man at a bus stop in the town of Raanana, north of Tel Aviv, the BBC reported.

Speaking at the scene of the bus attack, Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat said new restrictions should be introduced on the city’s Arab neighborhoods, the New York Times reported.

So Ruth Pollard, HRW et al – how many Israeli casualties would you accept before acknowledging Israeli self-defense as legitimate? Despite the efforts of the Israeli government to dismiss the rumors as mere “incitement”, feelings very quickly ran to violence.

In a sign of the tensions, police said a Jewish-Israeli man stabbed another Jew in northern Israel in a suspected failed revenge attack.

Since the latest round of violence began, a total of 16 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and 11 in the Gaza Strip, in addition to a few 1,300 injured by Israeli gunfire, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. According to Palestinian Health Ministry figures, Monday’s deaths bring the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since the start of October to 27.

In response to the violence, Israel was planning an emergency meeting of its security cabinet for Tuesday afternoon and considered whether to seal off Palestinian neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem.

Israeli police says two attackers stabbed and shot people on a bus.

The rising tide of unrest, which has seen a series of stabbing attacks and violent protests, has raised fears that a full-scale third Palestinian uprising, or intifada, could erupt.