Israeli woman killed in wave of violence in West Bank

Also on Monday, two Palestinian girls stabbed a 70-year-old Palestinian man in central Jerusalem with a pair of scissors.

An eighteen-year-old Israeli man was killed in a stabbing attack Monday at a gas station in the West Bank, near the town of Modiin.

The two attackers were shot by police, one fatally, and another was taken to a nearby hospital.

Two teenage Palestinian girls have been “neutralised” after stabbing an elderly man, police in Jerusalem said.

The eight week surge in street violence has challenged Israel’s security system and alarmed the United States, whose Secretary of State John Kerry is due to visit the region this week. The statement did not say how close the girls got to the officer.

Several were arrested in connection to the attack, which took place hours after a separate incident in the West Bank, when a young Palestinian man armed with a knife approached IDF soldiers.

The suspected terrorist was shot and killed.

The violence has since spread across Israel into the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Later, a Palestinian driving a taxi attempted to ram into civilians and charged at them with a knife before being shot dead, police said.It provided no further details on the civilian, who was lightly wounded.

Eighty-three Palestinians in all have been killed, a few while carrying out attacks and others in clashes with Israeli forces, while 18 Israelis and an American student have been killed in Palestinian stabbings, shootings and auto rammings.

On Sunday, an Israeli woman was stabbed to death and three Palestinian attackers were killed in a series of incidents in the West Bank.

Roughly half of them have been alleged attackers.

Palestinian security officials confirmed she had died of her wounds and identified her as Asheraqat Qatanani, from Askar refugee camp near Nablus.