Israeli officers shoot dead a knife-wielding Palestinian

Two Palestinians were killed after allegedly stabbing an Israeli soldier, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

The soldier was lightly injured with bruising to the face was apparently hit by a bullet ricochet.

The military funeral procession started at the Ramallah Medical Center and ended at Hammad’s hometown of Silwad.

The Israeli regime’s military claimed that the slain Palestinians had stabbed an Israeli soldier, slightly wounding him, before being gunned down by Zionist troops.

On Friday, Israeli border guards shot dead a Palestinian woman who tried to ram a vehicle into them in the West Bank, shortly after a Palestinian was killed in clashes with Israeli forces near the border with the Gaza Strip.

The attacks on Sunday are the latest in a series of deadly stabbing incidents attributed to the Palestinian-Israeli tensions since mid-September. ‘The terrorist pulled out a knife and tried to stab the policeman and was quickly killed by police gunfire. Police officers spokeswoman Luba Samri stated in that on Saturday, officers had approached a human being they viewed as suspicious.

In another attack, earlier in the day, police said a soldier was stabbed and lightly wounded in Jerusalem by a 30-year-old attacker. Another two would-be attackers were shot dead Saturday. In October, Israel began withholding the bodies of suspected attackers as a tactic to crack down on the violence.

Israeli leaders blame the Palestinian Authority for incitement to violence due to religious motives, sparked by tensions over the flashpoint holy site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem.

Palestinian sources named the driver as Maher al-Jabi, 56, who they said died of his wounds in a Nablus hospital.

The Palestinians consider the victims martyrs in their fight against Israel.

20 Israelis have also been killed. “He was swiftly shot and neutralized”, she stated.