Kerry Condemns Palestinian Stabbing Attacks

Of those, 56 are said by Israeli to have been attackers.

In another attack, a 16-year-old Palestinian was shot dead when trying to stab an Israeli soldier near Huwara south of Nablus.

Soon after Mr Kerry spoke, a Palestinian driver rammed into Israeli security personnel at a checkpoint in the north of the occupied West Bank, injuring four people, the Israeli military said.

The gas station stabbing took place on the 443 highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which cuts in parts through the West Bank. One of the girls was shot dead.

Kerry’s remarks are unlikely to smooth the way for his afternoon talks with Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The civilian was evacuated to hospital while the attacker fled the scene.

The Israeli leader announced tighter controls on Palestinian vehicles and an increase in the number of so-called “bypass roads” which create separate routes for Palestinians and Israeli settlers.

The violence erupted in mid-September over tensions surrounding a sensitive Jerusalem holy site and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In addition, Ezra Schwartz, an 18-year-old from Kerry’s home state of MA, was killed in a West Bank shooting last week.

Kerry touched down amid a new rash of deadly attacks that have dampened any lingering hopes of renewed peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians during the Obama administration’s final year. The Palestinians and the European Union have been clamoring for permits to build industrial, residential and commercial projects in Area C for months and even years.

Speaking before the Committee, regarding the celebration of the worldwide Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Eliasson said on behalf of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, that he was sorry about the situation of the occupied people.

“We are going everywhere”.

The reports, however, did not indicate what these gestures would entail, but said that such assurances is the only way Netanyahu will be able to provide gestures to the Palestinians amid the far-right makeup of his government. “The most important tool that we have is the perseverance, courage and determination to fight terrorism”.

More than half of the Palestinians killed have been alleged attackers, while others were shot during demonstrations and clashes with Israeli security forces, including along the Gaza border. Yet the Palestinians continue to seek out random Jews to kill on the streets and do it in the name of their desire to end an occupation that could have been finished long ago if they were not still obsessed with Israel’s destruction. Although the attackers initially were nearly all in their late teens or early 20s, they have come in recent weeks to include family men with children.

But Netanyahu, according to diplomatic officials, told Kerry on Tuesday that if the worldwide community expects permission to be given to the Palestinians to build, Israel expects recognition of its right to build in the settlement blocs, in return.

Eli Bin, the director of the Magen David Adom rescue service, says the Israeli was stabbed in the stomach and died of his wounds. He said the same stabber also lightly wounded two women nearby.

Purported CCTV footage of the incident showed that the two teenagers were carrying scissors at the time they were shot. Police said the two girls were related. One of the girls was lying still on the ground, after a passer-by struck her with a chair, when the officer fired into her body.

A second man in his 20s, possibly caught in the crossfire from security forces responding to the attack, sustained a gunshot wound to the hand.