Israelis kill 3 alleged Palestinian attackers

At least 34 Palestinians, including several of the attackers, have been killed in the same period.

Seven Israelis have been killed. Israel deployed thousands of extra troops in an effort to prevent nearly two weeks of violence from developing into a new Palestinian uprising.

Tensions boiled over into violence earlier this month as Israeli incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound – the third holiest site in Islam – gave way to protests and clashes that have consumed much of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

Four Palestinians were killed by Israelis, and one critically wounded, after attempting to stab either police officers or a member of the public on Saturday, the latest in a month of similar attacks.

Palestinian sources identified the alleged assailant as 18-year-old Fadel al-Kawatsmi and confirmed his death.

A Palestinian man pray in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz near Jerusalem’s Old City during Friday prayers, Friday, October 16, 2015. The teenager drew a knife and tried to stab the officers, who shot him dead, the spokesman said.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said that dozens of Palestinians hurled rocks and rolled burning tyres at soldiers who called on them to halt, used “riot dispersal means” and then, after the Palestinians did not desist, opened fire with.

The tomb appeared to be unharmed, but the fire sets another downturn in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after weeks of renewed violence, according to CNN.

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

The military said the Israeli civilian shot and killed the Palestinian before the man could harm him.

But it has failed to stop the violence.

But on Friday he condemned an arson attack the previous night on Joseph’s Tomb, a West Bank site which is holy to Jews.

Israeli authorities are reporting another stabbing by a Palestinian assailant in the volatile West Bank city of Hebron.

US President Barack Obama expressed concern Friday about the outbreak of violence centered in Jerusalem, and called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to tamp down inflammatory rhetoric.

That attack took place near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied territory. The recent attacks have largely been carried out by individuals with no ties to militant groups.

Israel’s new United Nations ambassador, Danny Danon, accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of ” risky incitement” against Israel with what he called “hate-filled speech”, including claims that Israel is trying to change the status quo at the Jerusalem shrine. The complex is also sacred to Jewish people, who know it as the Temple Mount.