Israeli security forces kill three more Palestinians in stabbing incidents

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA mentioned no knives and said Israelis simply shot two Palestinians dead.

Jim Phillips, a Middle East Analyst with the Heritage Foundation, said social media has played a role in what most believe are uncoordinated attacks.

An IDF patrol in the Hebron Hills outside the city also came under fire Saturday night from an improvised explosive device. There were no further details.

Including alleged assailants, 40 Palestinians have been killed since the violence erupted on October 1.

The Israeli deputy ambassador to the United Nations, David Roet, defended Israel’s approach, saying it faced an enemy “willing to die in order to kill” and was “responding proportionately”. There was no word on the attacker’s condition. ‘The soldier was moderately wounded…

The mayor met his Tel Aviv counterpart, Ron Huldai, in the seaside city on Saturday before attending an event at a mixed Jewish and Palestinian school.

Israeli forces Saturday prevented Palestinian farmers from picking their olive trees in the village of Burin to the south of Nablus. He is also scheduled to meet victims of recent Palestinian stabbing attacks at a hospital in Jerusalem, the AP reported.

“Over time, the only way that Israel is going to be truly secure, and the only way the Palestinians will be able to meet the aspirations of their people, is if they are two states living side by side in peace and security”.

In the first attack in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank city of Hebron, a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli civilian, the Israeli military said.

According to Israeli police, Motaaz Ewaisat, 16, was killed on the scene.

The incident took place near where two Palestinian men boarded a bus earlier in the week and began shooting and stabbing passengers, killing two. The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate condemned the incident, saying it “exposes journalists’ lives to danger, gives the Israeli occupation a pretext to target and kill journalists, and restricts their ability to perform their professional and national duties”.

Israel on Friday rejected Palestinian calls for a protection force to be deployed in east Jerusalem to quell violence around the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque.

Reporting from Jerusalem, NPR’s Emily Harris tells Weekend Edition that three more Palestinians were killed after Israeli Police say they tried to stab Israelis in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Hamas had called for “rallies of anger and confrontations”.

The director general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dore Gold, said: “The burning of Joseph’s tomb forcefully demonstrates what would happen in the holy places in Jerusalem if they were in the hands of the Palestinian leadership”.

Thirty-nine Palestinians have died since the beginning of the month, according to Palestinian health officials, with 11 of those being knife-wielding assailants, according to Israeli police. On the edge of the Issawiyeh neighborhood, drivers honked their horns at a group of Israeli police and paramilitary border police who were taking their time checking each auto and asking a few of the younger Palestinians to lift up their shirts to show they were not armed. The boy laid motionless on the ground as Israeli soldiers tried to resuscitate him.

The tomb, which has been the site of clashes in the past, is frequently visited by Jewish pilgrims escorted by the Israeli military. The Palestinian was being evacuated for treatment.