Palestinian attacker killed at West Bank checkpoint

De Blasio considered a trip to the West Bank, but that has been canceled due to security concerns, according to a spokeswoman.

Saturday’s attacks follow a series of near daily bouts of violence this month that started with a drive-by shooting in which Palestinians killed two West Bank Jewish settlers.

Israeli border police killed a 16-year-old Palestinian in a neighbourhood around East Jerusalem as they stopped him for questioning.

Two weeks of violence have left 39 Palestinians dead and hundreds more wounded in clashes with Israeli forces.

Over the past month, eight Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks, a lot of them stabbings.

There has also been violence along the Gaza-Israel border. In a few cases, witnesses gave accounts that were later shown by video footage to be false.

Israel has adamantly denied the allegations, saying it has no plans to change the status quo at the site, where Jews are allowed to visit but not pray.

Right-wing Israeli minister Uri Ariel said the attack “on one of the holiest sites to the Jewish nation” could not be forgiven and called for Israel to retake control of the area, which is under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction.

Also in Hebron, a Palestinian teenage girl tried to stab a female Israeli soldier outside a border guard base before being shot dead by her would-be victim, and a Palestinian man was shot after stabbing and moderately wounding a soldier, though it was unclear whether the assailant was killed.

The United States has stepped up efforts to attempt to restore calm to the area.

Earlier this month, Amnesty worldwide released a statement condemning attacks on civilians on both sides of the conflict and urged Israeli forces to hold Israelis who have attacked Palestinians accountable.

The Israeli military says the attacker stabbed a soldier and was quickly shot.

However, Palestinians believe the site belongs to a holy man from the city of Nablus.

Troops also opened fire at stone-throwing Palestinian youths in several sectors of Hebron, wounding 11 with rubber bullets and one with a live round, Palestinian medics said.

“Israel is not the problem at the Temple Mount, Israel is the solution”, he said at the start of his weekly Cabinet meeting.

“Let me be crystal clear”.

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.

“There were are 35 martyrs, including children and more than 1,000 injured”, the Palestinian ambassador said, adding, “Most of them were minors”.

“This reprehensible act is yet another example of the escalating violence in the region, threatening to further inflame sensitivities owing to the religious significance of Joseph’s Tomb”, the statement said.

Kerry’s announcement came as Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group, praised the Palestinians and said standing up to Israel is the duty of all Muslims.

Taye-Brook Zerihoun, the U.

Anyone with bad intentions would not pass through a checkpoint and instead try to reach Jewish neighborhoods through dirt roads, they said.

Zerihoun warned Israel that the current crisis can not be resolve security measures alone.