Palestinian attacker kills two Israelis in Tel Aviv bringing violence to

Earlier on Saturday, Israeli security forces shut down a local Palestinian radio station in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron, El-Halil Radio, the station’s manager and the Israeli army said.

The attacker was first run over by former settler leader Gershon Mesika and then shot by security forces at the scene.

Police had called the incident a “confirmed terrorist attack” but later modified their definition to call it a “suspected terror attack”.

On Thursday, a pair of stabbing and shooting attacks carried out by Palestinians killed three Israelis, a Palestinian and an American teenager in one of the deadliest days of the recent outburst.

Four Israelis have been injured, two of them seriously, after being stabbed in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, Israeli police say.

Administrative detention is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows Israel to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months.

The director of al-Khalil Radio, Amjad Shawar, said Israeli soldiers stormed the radio station overnight, making it the second Palestinian news outlet to be closed this month by Tel Aviv.

The West Bank attacker was shot, the army said, but the assailant s condition was not clear. She said he was likely working there unlawfully.

Clashes in September between Israeli police and Palestinians at the highly sensitive compound, sacred to both faiths and which Jews revere as the Temple Mount, preceded the current wave of violence.

His visit would focus on “stopping the violence in Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank”, as well as on Syria and the Islamic State, the officials said.

More than 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are now held in a few 17 Israeli jails, dozens of whom are serving multiple life sentences.