Palestinians killed after attacking Israeli soldiers

In the first attack, which took place overnight in the city of Hebron, two Palestinians stabbed an Israeli soldier before being shot dead, the army said in a statement obtained by AFP.

In addition, an American student was killed in a Palestinian attack and an Eritrean migrant was shot dead by an Israeli security guard after he was mistakenly identified as an attacker.

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

It was cleared for publication Thursday that Israel’s Shin Bet security service together with police recently arrested a number of Jewish suspects in the terror attack that killed three members of the Palestinian family.

Earlier in the day, a Palestinian gunman fired at a checkpoint near Jerusalem, wounding a soldier and a bystander before being shot dead by soldiers, the military said. Israeli forces have killed 102 Palestinians in the same period, of whom 63 were identified by Israel as assailants or caught on camera carrying out assaults, while most others were killed in clashes with police or the military.

The officer was hospitalised with a light stab wound and a wound to the leg from a bullet fired errantly by one of his colleagues, a police spokeswoman said.

The developments came as two Palestinians were shot and killed following separate attacks on Israelis on Thursday.

Young Jewish men from wildcat settlement outposts in the West Bank and known as the “hilltop youth” have been blamed for violence and vandalism targeting Palestinians, Christian holy sites and even Israeli military property.

On July 31, a large fire broke out at Riham’s home when extremist Israeli settlers threw firebombs and Molotov cocktails into the house in the town of Duma, located 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinians have in recent years complained about intimidation and aggression from Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and criticized what they see as a lenient government response to such incidents.

Israeli security forces stand near the body of an alleged Palestinian assailant who was shot followi …

Palestinian health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP the two wounded were in moderate condition.

Nineteen Israelis have been killed in attacks during the same time period.

A wave of violence that erupted on October 1 has so far claimed the lives of more than 120 people, including 109 Palestinians and 17 Israelis.

Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during the 1967 Middle East War. Discouragement rooted in decades of Israeli occupation has been attributed by the Palestinian leaders.