Knife-wielding Palestinian boys attack guard in Jerusalem

They included a Palestinian woman who was purportedly shown on CCTV approaching an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank, presenting documents to a security guard and then attacking him with a large knife.

A large number of the attacks have been carried out by young Palestinians. In the other incident, an Arab man attempted to stab police officers near the Old City’s Damascus Gate only to be shot and neutralized before he could draw blood.

The knife has replaced suicide bombings, vehicle attacks and random shootings as the new tool of choice for waging jihad on Israel, with leaders blatantly calling for Palestinians young and old to take up the kitchen implement and kill.

Israeli soldiers clear a road after a Palestinian woman was shoot dead after she drew a knife in check point near the West Bank Palestinian town of Qalqilya, Monday, November 9, 2015.

“In response to the attack, (Israeli air force) aircraft targeted a Hamas position in the southern Gaza Strip”.

Israeli police said forces foiled another attack near Abu Dis, a West Bank suburb of Jerusalem.

The guards shot at him and wounded him critically, and the Hadassah Har Hatzofim hospital in Jerusalem announced his death a short while after his hospitalization. Passengers subdued the other, police said.

Palestinian safety officers confirmed the in a single day raids.

Israeli police said the 12- and 13-year-old boys stabbed and moderately wounded the guard on a light rail train in the settlement of Pisgat Zeev.

Netanyahu’s meeting with Obama will centre on U.S. defence aid to Israel following the July nuclear accord between major powers and Iran, but the violence between Israelis and Palestinians is also expected to be discussed.

The two teens stabbed the 13-year-old Israeli and an Israeli man after which Manasra’s cousin was shot dead by police.

Jerusalem had been relatively quiet for the past two weeks following an Israeli crackdown in response to the attacks.

Additional acts of collective punishment which impacted tens of thousands of Palestinian residents of Jerusalem were Israel’s closure of East Jerusalem neighbourhoods with checkpoints and cement blocks.