Israel’s military says 2 Palestinians were shot and killed after stabbing

Since mid-September, 19 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks.

Palestinians have become frustrated over decades of failed peace talks and the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Earlier in the day, two Palestinians attacked a soldier with knives in the city of Hebron, also in the West Bank, wounding him before Israeli troops shot and killed them, the military said.

Israel’s military said two soldiers were wounded in the incident.

“The forces responded, shooting the attacker and resulting in his death”.

A recent report by Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organisation, showed that more than 92.6 percent of complaints Palestinians lodge with the Israeli police go without charges being filed.

The southern West Bank city is home to the Ibrahimi Mosque, known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs and revered by followers of both religions.

Israeli medical sources said that the soldier, not yet named, was suffering from moderate to serious wounds in his upper body.

The arson attack in July took place in the West Bank village of Duma where assailants, believed to be Jewish extremists, lobbed a firebomb during the night into the Dawabsheh family’s home, where four family members were asleep.

Police said the alleged attacker had been killed. The personnel fired back and killed the assailant. The recommendations include providing light weapon and bulletproof vehicles to the Palestinian Authority’s security forces.

It is unusual for Palestinian security agents to be implicated in such attacks.

It is the latest in a wave of attacks, mainly stabbings, by Palestinians on Israelis since the start of October.

It found two Israelis guilty of kidnapping and murdering Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 16, but deferred a decision on the main suspect, pending psychiatric evaluation.

Unusually, two Palestinians were wounded by tank fire after entering the no-go zone close to the border fence east of the city of Khan Yunes.

The US state department condemned the “vicious terrorist attack” in “the strongest possible terms”, urging Israel to “apprehend the murderers” and calling on both sides to “avoid escalating tensions”.

Lawyers for the suspects told a news conference that they had been denied access to their clients.

Most of the attacks have been carried out by individuals not known to have been acting on direct orders from militant groups.

Israeli officials privately accept that the violence is likely to continue.