Palestine conflict: United States teen among five dead in two separate attacks

The wave of violence has claimed the lives of 15 Israelis and dozens of Palestinians.

After an emergency security cabinet meeting, Israel suspended work permits previously granted to 1,200 West Bank Palestinians.

The latest attacks left five deaths and wounded seven others at the Panorama office building and shopping center in Tel Aviv and Gush Etzion in the West Bank. Ezra Schwartz was 18 years old and a recent high school graduate from MA who was spending the year studying at a religious school. She said he was a 24-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Dura. The ongoing violence is the stark reality of terrorism in Israel today as Jews are brutally attacked while praying, driving on roads, walking in the streets and generally going about their daily lives.

The Israeli Government Press Office said Ezra Schwartz from Sharon, Mass., died in the attack on Thursday. It was not immediately clear what he was doing in Tel Aviv.

At least 86 Palestinians have been killed during the same time period, many of whom were shot dead under circumstances in which rights groups said Israeli forces used unnecessary force.

Two Israelis have been stabbed to death by a Palestinian assailant outside a shop in Tel Aviv where a prayer service was taking place. That attack killed three people, including an 18-year-old American and an Israeli.

A few hours later, near the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut south of Jerusalem, a Palestinian gunman at the wheel of a auto overtook a row of vehicles backed up near a junction, raking them with bullets from an Uzi submachine gun.

“Forces on sight fired towards the vehicle, identifying a hit”, an army statement said.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the attacker was apprehended by onlookers. “We extend our condolences to his family and friends”.

In Hebron, around 2,000 Palestinian crowded outside the Al-Hussein Ibn Ali mosque to mourn Shadi Arafa, who was killed in the same attack. In another day of violence last month, three Israelis and three Palestinians, including two said by Israel to have been attackers, were killed.

Yes, 90 Palestinians have been killed, and 16 Israelis.

Also on Thursday, Israeli Maj.

SADDENING UPDATE: Seriously wounded Israeli man shot by Palestinian terrorist in Gush Etzion died of his wounds.

In the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Palestinians joined a rally that was held to back the violent confrontations between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.