Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in West Bank

Dr. Ofer Merin of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem stated “the young lady was stabbed numerous times in the head, chest and the area of the heart”.

Three Palestinians, including a teen, attacked Israelis with knives and a vehicle in the West Bank on Sunday and were killed when security forces intervened, the latest in a almost two-month wave of violence.

The attacker managed to flee the scene but was arrested overnight by the Israeli police. Frequent visits to the site by Israelis, many ultra-nationalist Jews, has become a source of concern for many Palestinians, who fear that the decades-old arrangement guaranteeing exclusive Muslim prayer is being threatened. “We’ve done the same in Jerusalem when most of the attacks issued from there”, he said.

A hospital spokeswoman said a 51-year-old Israeli was lightly injured when hit by the taxi.

“This is terrorism by individuals, occasionally with kitchen knives, who are incited mainly by social media”.

Her attacker was shot dead by security forces.

He said “citizens must be on maximum alert”.

Sunday’s attacks came two days before Kerry is scheduled to arrive in an attempt to calm tensions stemming from a two-month wave of violence that shows no signs of dissipating.

Israeli settlers have attacked a number of Palestinian homes in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Tawabte, a Palestinian from the nearby village of Beit Fajjar, did not have a previous terror history, according to the Shin Bet.

In answer to a question about Netanyahu comparing the recent attacks in Israel to those in Paris that left at least 129 people dead, the official said that the State Department has encouraged both sides to “put an end to provocative rhetoric”. Israel has said it is within its rights to respond with lethal force to potentially deadly attacks.

In the Etzion bloc of Jewish settlements, a Palestinian stabbed and killed a 20-year-old Israeli woman, an Israeli police spokesman said.

Frustration by a new Palestinian generation at the failure to achieve statehood through negotiations – and anger at ongoing Israeli settlement expansion – are seen as an underlying cause of the violence.