Israelis kill 2 alleged Palestinian attackers

In the second attack, a Palestinian woman attempted to stab a female Israeli soldier guarding the Jewish enclave before being shot dead by her victim, Israeli police said.

Police said the assailant was a 16-year-old from nearby Jabel Mukaber, the same neighbourhood that was home to three Palestinians who carried out gun, knife and car-ramming attacks earlier this week. Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, including a laborer disguised as a journalist who stabbed an Israeli soldier.

As hundreds of Palestinians joined the funeral of Ayad Awawdeh in the West Bank village of Dura on Saturday, his mother told AFP her son had “watched the news on television the whole time and exploded with anger at seeing so many horrors”. That makes them much harder to detect and stop, and it means that the increasingly severe measures Israel is adopting, including the deployment of troops and the establishment of checkpoints on roads leading out of Arab neighborhoods, may succeed only in further raising tensions.

De Blasio met Saturday with his Tel Aviv counterpart, Ron Huldai, in the seaside city before attending an event in the central town of Beit Shemesh sponsored by the school, Hand in Hand.

There has also been a spate of reports in the past week of Palestinian citizens being beaten or stabbed by Israeli Jews after they were identified as Arab. Mobs of Jews chanting “Death to Arabs” are now a familiar sight in Jerusalem. The officer’s hand was lightly wounded, they said.

Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus was set on fire amidst the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The settler had intercepted Qawasmi, cursed at him, then shot him while Qawasmi tried to walk back in the direction he came from.

The PLO secretary-general Saeb Erekat announced last week that the Palestinian leadership would be contacting the High Commissioner for Human Rights in order to ask the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Chrystof Heyns, to conduct an investigation into the recent killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces.

Hamas, the militant group that rules over Gaza, has praised the attacks but not claimed responsibility for them. A group of Palestinian civilians arrived afterward and also beat them, according to Israeli police.

Mutez Awaysat, 16, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem, WAFA reported, citing eyewitnesses.

Jadalah said: “When Israeli Jews carry out knife attacks, they are arrested, not killed”.

In a third Hebron attack, a Palestinian assailant stabbed an Israeli soldier, leaving him with “moderate penetration wounds (in) his upper torso”, according to Magen David Adom, Israel’s national EMS agency. The others were Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

But Israel accuses him of incitement, saying he has not condemned attacks on Israelis and falsely accused Israel of having “summarily executed” a Palestinian boy who stabbed an Israeli boy.

“We don’t feel free at all”, said Mousa Omar, a 20-year-old Palestinian from Isawiyya, who works in a supermarket.

Joseph’s Tomb is located in the city of Nablus, in the West Bank in an area under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian authorities say they have had 43 people killed since October 1.

He considered trekking to the West Bank during his three-day trip, aides said, but the excursion was shelved due to security concerns.

On Wednesday thousands of soldiers and paramilitary Border Police were deployed in Jerusalem and major cities in Israel where Palestinians live. The officers opened fire and seriously wounded the assailant. But Palestinians say it is the result of years of Israeli occupation, failed peace efforts and lack of hope among their youth.