Israeli Police officers: Palestinian Shot Lifeless After Tried Knife Attack

Elsewhere in the West Bank, the Israeli military said a Palestinian motorist rammed his vehicle into a checkpoint on Saturday and lightly wounded a soldier stationed there.

A Ma’an reporter identified the Palestinians as Muhammad Rafiq Hussien Sabana, 17, and Noor al-Deen Muhammad Abdul-Qadir Sabana, 23.

Israeli soldiers stand guard near the scene where two Palestinians, who the Israeli military said stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier, were shot dead by Israeli forces, in the village of Hewara, near the West Bank city of Nablus today.

Separately, Reuters reports that earlier today a Palestinian man was arrested after stabbing and wounding a soldier.

The news of the West Bank incident comes just hours after Jerusalem police gunned down a Palestinian in the Old City.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has voiced concerns over the excessive use of force and “extrajudicial killing” of Palestinians by Israeli forces. Then he pulled out a knife and tried to stab one of them.

Weeks before, two 16-year-old Palestinians were shot dead at the checkpoint, one of whom was run over and shot by prominent Israeli settler Gershon Mesika after he said she was attempting to carry out an attack.

20 Israelis have also been killed. Hammad was shot and killed Friday when she sped toward Israeli forces, police spokeswoman said.

The incident is the latest in three months of violence.

Israeli leaders says Islamist groups who call for the destruction of Israel have played a major role in inciting the recent violence.

The Palestinian Authority charges that the violence is the result of almost 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip territories, home to more than five million people, and amid dim prospects of establishing a Palestinian state in these territories, in accordance with the two-state peace solution.