Israeli killed in stabbing attack
A Palestinian man was shot dead following an attempted attack on Israelis, while in a separate incident, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl was run over by a Jewish settler after trying to stab Israelis near the city of Nablus.
Hadar Buchris, 21, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist as she stood at a bus stop in the Gush Etzion junction.
Twenty-two Israelis have died since the recent wave of violence began in October.
“A young man… was lying on the ground unconscious, with stab wounds to the upper body, on the highway next to the gas station”.
Netanyahu visited a hitchhiking station where an Israeli woman was stabbed to death by a Palestinian near the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut on Sunday. The civilian was evacuated to hospital while the attacker fled the scene.
When they are lying on the ground injured the two armed Israelis walk up to the Palestinians and shoot them several more times. The first intifada lasted from 1987-1993 and the second from 2000-2005, although both were far more intense and deadly.
On Monday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian near the central West Bank city of Ramallah after stabbing an Israeli settler to death, the Israeli army said.
The violence came ahead of Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to the region this week amid a months-long spiral of bloodshed.
He was identified as 34-year-old Issa Thawabta from Beit Fajjar in Bethlehem area, just south of Gush Etzion illegal settlement.
Kerry will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials, before traveling to the West Bank for discussions with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
“We are going everywhere”. Of them, 55 are said by Israel to be attackers and the rest were killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
The Palestinian government has said Israel is carrying out unlawful killings of Palestinians and “accusing every victim of holding a knife” or planting one at the side of alleged attackers. A police officer shot dead one of the girls and injured the other, and a security guard was also wounded in the melee. He says the same stabber also lightly wounded two women.
Israeli police search an Arab man near the Mahane Yehuda market in west Jerusalem on November 23.
Border Police officers manning the Qalandiya checkpoint were uninjured in the incident, and returned fire towards the shooters, according to the Israel Police.