Israeli Soldier Killed by Palestinan Assailant in Latest Attack, Police Say

Netanyahu is to meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Germany in the coming week as part of an effort by Washington to restore calm. Later, police said a Palestinian woman stabbed a female officer at a border police base in Hebron and lightly injured her before the officer shot her dead.

But that has failed to stop the violence.

In the past month, nine Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks and 41 Palestinians have been shot and killed by Israelis, including 20 labeled as attackers.

A foreigner was shot by police during the attack after they apparently mistook him for an assailant.

Seven Israelis have been killed since October 1 in attacks by Palestinians with knives, guns and cars, according to Israeli officials. In one of the cases, the attackers approached a soldier wearing a vest that said, “Press”, and carrying a camera. The bus station was after shut down as Israeli cops officers searched the terminal for any further threats. Violent protests have also erupted in East Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile in east Jerusalem, a Palestinian tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint but was shot dead.

Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed the area in a move that is not recognized internationally.

“They want to separate between the residents of Jerusalem”.

“This has no political meaning, said Emmanuel Nahshon, a spokesman for Israel’s foreign ministry”. Israel “has a right to use the same security measures which every other city facing urban rioting has used”, he added, suggesting the measures could be rolled back. Police said the barrier is meant as a shield against stones and firebombs. It did not prevent pedestrians from leaving or entering.

The latest developments in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence (all times local). “We say we need to go exactly to the other way, peace rather than occupation, equality rather than racism”.

The daily attacks have caused a sense of panic across Israel and raised fears that the region is on the cusp of a new round of heavy violence.

Gold, the Netanyahu adviser, played down the extent of Palestinian frustration in the city, saying it is possible to create “patterns of co-existence and dialogue” once violence has subsided.

In yet another sign of tensions, ultra-Orthodox Jews illegally visiting a West Bank site holy to them were assaulted by Palestinians, two days after Palestinians torched the site. The incident saw a group of about 30 religious students from a school in Jerusalem travel to Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank city of Nablus despite not having the required authorisation from Israel’s military. The Israelis said that the Palestinians beat them, and claimed that a few of the Palestinian police joined in.

Israeli authorities reported five knife attacks Saturday, all of them allegedly by Palestinians. Israel has tightened security and its security forces have clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side.

Three of Saturday s attacks took place in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, where a few 500 Jewish settlers live in a heavily-guarded enclave in the city centre surrounded by almost 200,000 Palestinians. “Israel is not the problem at the Temple Mount – Israel is the solution”, he asserted. “We will protect the status quo, we are the only ones who are doing this and we will continue to do it responsibly and seriously”.