Israeli PM Netanyahu vows response to violence in Jerusalem

In numerous attacks over the past week, Israeli citizens overpowered the perpetrators.

Israeli media reported that Israel will bury the Palestinians’ bodies in secret instead of handing them to their families.

A Ma’an reporter said the Palestinian was 14-years-old, although the teenager has yet to be identified.

A press statement which the Israeli police published claimed 20-year-old Basil Basim Sidr attempted to stab an Israeli settlers.

The first of Wednesday’s attacks occurred when a man, reportedly a 20-year-old from the West Bank city of Hebron, tried to stab a security guard at an entrance to the Old City but was shot dead before harming anyone.

Israeli authorities have fired tear gas at Palestinian protesters in Bethlehem, with a young boy being injured in the clashes.

Forces on the scene shot and killed the attacker, who Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet said was a 23-year-old Palestinian resident of Jerusalem who had been jailed from 2012 until earlier this year.

Israeli paramilitary border police used their vehicles to block an exit at the edge of Jabel Mukabar, an East Jerusalem neighborhood and home to three Palestinians who carried out deadly attacks against Israelis on Tuesday.

The increased tensions, which have caused at least 31 Palestinian deaths in October alone, are being labeled a third Palestinian intifada.

A wave of mainly stabbing attacks by Palestinians has raised fears of a full-scale uprising, while a gun-and-knife attack on a Jerusalem bus on Tuesday killed two people and led to outrage among Israelis.

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom said a number of Palestinians who allegedly attacked Israeli civilians would have their residency rights cancelled.

Witnesses in the city said they had not yet observed many roadblocks between Jewish and Arab areas. Steps approved include allowing police to impose a closure on points of friction or incitement according to security assessments.

Abbas also threatened to submit a case to the worldwide Criminal Court against what he called Israel’s “extrajudicial killings” of Palestinians.

All three attackers in the two incidents were from east Jerusalem, and two were shot dead.

A few Palestinians are concerned that Israel intends to make changes at the al Aqsa mosque, a site which is sacred to both Muslims and Jews.

Israeli police said 300 soldiers had already been incorporated into their deployment in Israeli cities, while security in Jerusalem had previously been reinforced.

“Palestinian leader and former peace negotiator Saeb Erekat blamed the Israelis for the escalation”. The attackers have struck in Jerusalem and central and northern Israel, and in the occupied West Bank.

“The global community can not remain paralyzed while this critical situation continues to escalate and threatens to plunge the region into another cycle of violence that will only bring more bloodshed and suffering and loss of all hope for a better future”, he said in letters to the Council, published by pro-Palestinian website Mission of Palestine.