Palestinians killed in stabbing and failed attack

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the attack happened outside the city’s Jaffa Gate, a popular spot for tourists visiting Jerusalem’s walled Old City. The attacker’s identity was not immediately known.

Some observers attribute the recent uptick in violence to a July arson attack in the West Bank by suspected Jewish settlers that killed an 18-month-old Palestinian child and his parents.

During that same period, the Israeli Red Cross has documented the killing of 20 Israelis, a USA citizen and an Eritrean who was shot dead and viciously assaulted by Israelis after being mistaken for a Palestinian attacker.

Israeli forces or armed civilians have killed at least 120 Palestinians, 72 of whom authorities described as assailants, while others died in clashes with security forces.

Thousand of Palestinians on Thursday marched in a funeral procession for a Palestinian shot dead hours earlier during clashes with Israeli military forces in the Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah.

In other locations in the West Bank, another Palestinian was shot dead while trying to stab a soldier with a screwdriver, and a third after injuring a soldier in a car-ramming, the army said. The Palestinians say it is rooted in frustrations stemming from almost five decades of Israeli occupation.

Israel charged two Palestinian cousins from towns near northern city Nazareth for ties to ISIS and planning an attack, the Shin Bet domestic security agency said Thursday.

Rosenfeld says police shot and killed one assailant and arrested the second.

Their detentions have sparked anger among far-right Israelis who have held several protests, including outside the home of a judge, while lawyers have alleged torture of suspects by the domestic security agency, Shin Bet.

This week, Israeli forces arrest Palestinians en masse.

“In accordance with instructions passed on to Azam, he recruited a number of additional operatives studying with him at the Abu Dis University, in order to purchase material to produce explosives, rent apartments, recruit suicide bombers, and get them to infiltrate Israel”, it added. There was no immediate comment from Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.