Israel releases Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan

72 Palestinians were also killed by Israeli forces and civilians during October.

Speaking at a PLO Executive Committee meeting this week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that Israel must preserve the status quo that prevailed before the year 2000, when few Israelis visited the site.

The Meir Amit report said the futile nature of these stabbing attacks to influence Israel in the way of the more devastating attacks of the intifadas may “indicate the depth of the frustration and desperation felt by the younger generation of Palestinians at the forefront of the wave of attacks”.

Thousands of Palestinian mourners attended the funerals of the teenagers, two of whom were girls, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, a powder-keg in the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Israeli security officials say that the increase in Jewish visitors, along with claims from prominent Israeli Arabs such as the head of the northern branch of the Islamic movement Raed Salah that “al-Aqsa is in danger” sparked the current wave of violence.

Israeli mayors have urged citizens who have gun licenses to carry their weapons, a move that human rights groups say has encouraged vigilantism.

Medical sources said two of the three Israelis stabbed were in severe condition.

Israeli forces arrested the Palestinian.

Eleven Israelis have been killed in stabbings, shootings or other attacks.

Elsewhere, Israeli forces stormed a university in the town of Abu Dis after confrontations with students protesting Israel’s separation barrier and Palestinian deaths.

The confrontations erupted after students from Al Quds University gathered to demonstrate at the foot of the controversial barrier that separates Abu Dis from occupied Jerusalem.

It added that 1133 of the wounded Palestinians were shot with live rounds and 983 were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets and more than 5000 Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.