USA yeshiva student among 5 dead in Palestinian terror attacks

The site of the attack, known as the Panorama building in southern Tel Aviv, hosts a variety of shops and offices.

He said that he plans to return soon to Hebron with the UN Country Team to discuss with the governor and the mayor what programmes can be initiated to support the recovery of the area and community dialogue.

An 18-year-old American was killed in an attack in the West Bank, according to Israeli police, which did not release the victim’s name.

In a separate incident, three Palestinians allegedly opened fire on an Israeli auto from a vehicle in the Gush Etzion settlement south of Bethlehem, killing at least an Israeli, a Palestinian and an American according to the police.

“Terror is everywhere, if it happens on the streets of Israel, in a concert venue in Paris or in any other place where radical Islam infiltrates in order to harm normal daily life”.

A wave of violence has left at least 15 Israelis dead following knife and other attacks by Palestinians over the past month-and-a-half.

Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said that two of the attackers were shot and captured while a search for the third was ongoing.

The United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, on Thursday briefed the UN Security Council about the continuing violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

Israeli forensic policemen inspect bullet holes on the wind screen of a Palestinian attacker’s auto.

Thursday’s violence brings the number of Israelis killed in the wave of violence to 17. Israel grants thousands of permits for Palestinians to work in Israel, while thousands of others enter illegally.

The violence has Israelis on edge, and several politicians have urged licensed gun owners to carry their weapons. It was reported that one of the murdered men was holding a Torah scroll.

It was not immediately clear what he was doing in Tel Aviv. Israeli Channel 2 TV said the man worked illegally at a nearby restaurant.

Also Thursday, Israeli Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai and Palestinian Minister of Civil Affairs Hussen al-Sheikh signed an agreement granting Palestinian mobile carriers 3G high-speed data services in the West Bank. Israeli cellular carriers transmit 3G, but Palestinian networks have been confined to the slower 2G networks. The officer was sentenced Wednesday.

Abu Khdeir’s attorney Mohammad Mahmoud said the ruling delivered an “extremely light” punishment that “gives (police) a free hand”.