Boston Area Teen Among 5 Killed in Israel Attacks

A blood-spattered floor was littered with plastic gloves.

The army arrested 16 Palestinians in Hebron overnight, a military spokeswoman said, with residents saying many of its entrances and exits were closed Saturday morning.

Police identified the assailant in the Tel Aviv stabbing as a father of five from the village of Dura in the southern West Bank.

Though details were still emerging, the army spoke of shots being fired, then of the attacker “intentionally” ramming his vehicle into the pedestrians.

Ezra Schwartz, 18, of Sharon, Mass., was a gap-year student attending Yeshivat Ashreinu in Beit Shemesh. “This makes his death even more tragic”, said Sharansky.

Ezra Schwartz, a 2015 graduate of the Maimonides School.

The US Department of State said it had extended its condolences to his family and friends. Still, authorities have failed to halt the seemingly spontaneous attacks.

Netanyahu, among others, discussed possible actions in the Hebron area, where most of the Palestinians who carried out attacks recently came from, according to the statement. Both Palestinian assailants were taken into custody.

His brother Baha said he was hit by Israeli fire, and an investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of his death.

If the Jewish identity of attackers was relevant in those earlier reports – it was relevant, and was one of the basic five Ws of the story – then the Palestinian identity of yesterday’s attackers are equally relevant.

The violence since the start of October has killed at least 86 people on the Palestinian side, including one Arab Israeli, and at least 15 Israelis, as well as the American.

“There can be no justification for a spate of deliberate deadly attacks by Palestinians on civilians over the past week in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories which displayed a clear contempt for human life”, the organization said.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians with work permits travel into Israel daily and are traditionally perceived as a low threat.

Shortly after the Tel Aviv attack, Mayor Ron Huldai called for Israelis to remain calm.

“Dealing with the threats that kill the prospect of a two-state solution is also critical”, Mladenov warned, voicing concern at the recent Israeli decision to issue tenders for 436 housing units in the East Jerusalem settlement of Ramat Shlomo, the first such announcement in over a year.

Palestinian mobile operators Paltel and Wataniya, still using 2G technology and losing money, want to offer 3G to meet surging demand for data bandwidth for social media applications.

In Gaza, 26 Palestinians were shot with live fire as clashes broke out in the central and eastern Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Israeli police said a Jerusalem court sentenced a police officer to six weeks of community service for beating a Palestinian-American teenager during a violent protest in July 2014.