Alleged Palestinian attackers shot to death

A short while later, a Palestinian armed with a knife tried to stab soldiers northeast of Hebron, a statement said.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank including East al-Quds in 1967.

Four Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces Thursday after trying to stab them in two incidents in the southern West Bank, the army said. No soldiers were wounded in either incident.

Three of them were killed at the Gush Etzion junction and were later on identified as cousins Ahmad Salim Abd al-Majid Kawazba, Alaa Abed Muhammad Kawazba and Muhannad Ziyad Kawazba.

The Gush Etzion checkpoint is becoming place of choice for Palestinians intent on killing IDF soldiers with nearly daily attacks.

At least 134 Palestinians died by Israeli fire, including 93 said by Israel to be attackers.

On Jan. 3, Israeli passengers on a plane in Greece forced the crew to kick off two Palestinian citizens of Israel, according to reports in the Israeli media.

The BBC reports that the attack is the latest in a wave of attacks, mainly stabbings, by Palestinians on Israelis since the start of October, with twenty-two Israelis killed in attacks including stabbings, auto rammings and shootings since that time.

The company said only that one of the men held an Israeli passport while the other had a valid Israeli residence permit, without discussing their ethnicity.

Reacting to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s order to his security cabinet to prepare contingency plans for the fall of the Palestinian Authority (PA), PA President Mahmoud Abbas denied on Wednesday that the Palestinian governing body is in jeopardy of collapse.