Palestinians shot dead after allegedly stabbing Israeli soldiers

Meanwhile, two suspected Palestinian gunmen opened fire on people at the main bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Sunday, before one was shot dead, Israeli forces said, according to Agence France-Presse.

The recent knife attacks have confounded Israeli authorities.

Palestinian villagers fled to their local mosques and used the mosque amplifier to call for help from neighboring Palestinian villages and communities, who responded to their calls.

Clashes were also reported between Israeli military forces and Palestinian protesters near the illegal Beit El settlement on the outskirts of Ramallah.

Rare glimmers of hope were on display Saturday evening as hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched through the streets of central Jerusalem in a joint peace rally.

Israel’s cabinet also imposed more security measures on Sunday after further Palestinian stabbings this weekend, widening police stop-and-frisk powers that will effectively allow them to search anyone on the street.

In response to the recent violence, Israel has deployed 300 soldiers and built concrete barriers outside Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, where most of the attackers have come from, in response to the attacks, report the Associated Press.

On Saturday’s attacks, Israeli police said a border guard manning the Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank shot a knife-wielding Palestinian youth, first wounding the attacker and then killing him after the assailant tried for a second time to stab the guard.

The Palestinian Authority regularly negates any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, while groups of predominantly Muslim women daily harass Jewish and Christian visitors to the site.

A fourth was at a checkpoint in a Jewish settlement neighborhood of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, and a fifth at another checkpoint. “Israel is an occupier in Jerusalem”.

“I call on the parents to show responsibility for their children and tell us, the police, about any unusual behavior”, said Haim Shmueli.

The Israeli public radio said that a soldier was wounded with light to moderate injuries after being stabbed by the Palestinian man before being killed.

Israeli leaders say they will safeguard the status quo. The fact that Israeli police and civilians shoot people coming at them with a knife and murder in their heart is being criticized by the familiar cast of Palestinian apologists. Israeli police also said one of their cars had been burned.

Violence erupted after the 30 were confronted by Palestinians, Israeli media reported.

Many Jews believe it to be the final resting place of the biblical patriarch Joseph, while Muslims believe an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Yussef (Joseph) Dawiqat, was buried there two centuries ago.

The shrine is under Palestinian control and off-limits to Israelis except on escorted trips organised by the army.

The violence since the start of the month has drawn deep global concern.

U.S. secretary of state John Kerry, who could travel to the region soon and is scheduled to meet the Israeli prime minister in Germany this week, has spoken separately to Mr Abbas and Mr Netanyahu to ask them to restore calm.

Israel was to voice its opposition Monday to French proposals to send global observers to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the latest in a diplomatic push to quell fears over a full-blown Palestinian uprising.

The ministry said that the Palestinians have begun documenting Israeli “summary executions” and “incitement” in order to file a complaint against Israel with the global Criminal Court.