Israelis detained at pro-Palestinian protest in Hebron

The Israeli army said the young woman was killed after attempting to stab a soldier.

The United States condemned in the strongest possible terms on Friday an attack in the West Bank that resulted in the death of a US citizen, the State Department said in a statement.

Two Palestinians were shot and killed there on Sunday after an alleged armed attack on Border Police and three other youths were slain there two weeks earlier during a similar incident.

Friday has been in a flaring day of violence that saw another two Palestinian tolls.

Palestinian attackers have carried out numerous assaults at the Damascus Gate over the past five months, prompting Israel to significantly beef up security there in response.

Police confirmed the death of the assailant and identified him as a 20-year-old Palestinian from Kafr Aqeb.

According to COGAT, 58,000 Palestinians hold permits to work in Israel, with another 27,000 working for Israeli businesses in West Bank settlements and industrial zones.

Israel Public Radio reported that two Palestinian teenagers stabbed by knives two Israelis at Rami Levi Mall in the settlement of Sha’ar Benjamin east of Ramallah, and wounded them, one was critically wounded.

Troops detained 10 Israelis on Saturday as they joined a commemoration in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron for 29 Palestinian worshippers killed by a Jewish extremist in 1994.

During an MSNBC town hall, the Republican presidential candidate said that he had some doubt that he could settle the complex, decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

In the first attack, a man stabbed and wounded two policemen outside Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate before they shot him dead. It is a complex situation “without hope” for Palestinians as well as for Israelis that “must change”.

In the same period Israeli forces have killed 173 Palestinians, most while allegedly carrying out attacks but others during clashes and demonstrations.

Khaled Yousif Taqatqa, 21, was shot during confrontations between protesters and the Israeli military in the village of Beit Fajjar near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Mladenov called on both Israeli and Palestinian leaders to provide “a political horizon to their people” and to reject incitement by what he called radicals in their own camps.

Israel accuses Palestinian leaders and Islamist groups of inciting the violence.