New Jerusalem stabbing attack wounds two Israelis: police, medics

Hamas rules Gaza, squeezed between Egypt and Israel and separated from the West Bank.

Palestinians want East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza – lands Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, for a future state.

Police said the attacker had been “neutralised” without providing further details on whether the suspect had been captured or killed. He was apprehended after fleeing the scene.

The 20-year-old was killed during heavy clashes in the Shufat refugee camp that also left nearly 40 injured, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

The order Wednesday night came following a day that saw at least six Palestinian attacks on Israeli targets.

In East Jerusalem’s Old City, an Israeli man was reportedly stabbed and injured by Shurooq Dweiyat, a 19-year-old Palestinian woman.

She says they were confronted by thousands of rioters who hurled stones and firebombs at them.

“This [ruling] will only add fuel to the fire”, he said.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said forces were searching the area near the Jewish West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba for the attacker. It followed an attack Saturday in which two Israelis were killed.

Four people, including a female Israeli soldier were stabbed with a screwdriver in Tel Aviv.

Arab Israelis have staged sympathy protests with the Palestinians in recent days in several cities in Israel.

Jerusalem’s Old City was tense on Friday as Palestinians filed toward the sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound for the Friday congregation.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least 1,600 Palestinians have been injured since October 3.

There have been calls for a general strike throughout the Israeli-Arab society, especially in light of the shooting of an Arab woman who tried to stab a Jewish Israeli in the south of the country on Friday.

Abbas spoke to business leaders on Thursday in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

The latest round of violence began in September, when right-wing Jewish parliament members and other Jews visited the Temple Mount, and Muslims stockpiled rocks and metal bars inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Abbas insisted the Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation.

Rami Saleh, director of the Jerusalem Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights, told Anadolu Agency that the apartheid-like decision could draw a strong backlash from Palestinians.

In an interview with a local radio station, Beni Biton, the mayor of Dimona, said the male suspect, who was taken into police custody, was “a mentally ill man”. If we look at the statistics in Jerusalem and elsewhere, we see that aside from the police, civilians carrying weapons have foiled terror attacks. It is highly edited and depicts the aftermath of a series of unspecified stabbings.

The move by Israeli authorities to prevent Muslim men under 50 from attending prayers at the site angered Palestinian leaders. Five of the alleged attackers have been killed.