Palestinian woman shot after stabbing Israeli security guard

Hours later, a Palestinian woman was shot and injured after she attempted to stab an Israeli security guard at the entrance to the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

CCTV footage has captured the moment a Palestinian woman attacked an Israeli security guard with a knife outside a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

One Israeli legislator from the center-right Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid, told Israeli soldiers in October that Palestinians who threaten Israeli troops or civilians “should be shot to be killed”.

Near Hebron, a 72-year-old Palestinian woman tried to ram her vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers, a military spokeswoman said.

The latest violence came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to leave for Washington on Sunday to meet US President Barack Obama.

Witnesses said that dozens of young men rushed to the borderline area between the Gaza Strip and Israel and clash with the Israeli soldiers.

An Israeli soldier was seriously injured in the attack.

“If she had wanted to take revenge [for her husband’s death], she could have done that a long time ago”, Ayoub Sharawi said.

The Israeli Defense Forces said she was still being treated by medical personnel who took her to a hospital. He lives in the Immanuel settlement in the West Bank.

After the incident at the holy site, a 20-year-old Israeli was also shot and seriously wounded near the Palestinian village of Beit Anon north of Hebron.

In the past two months, there have been near-daily Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers. The attacks signaled an escalation after a series of Palestinian stabbings and widespread stone-throwing that marked the current round of confrontations with Israel.

Station manager Osman Halawi said the station was shut down not for incitement but because it broadcast on its Web site video that suggested Israeli forces planted a knife on a Palestinian after he was shot.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Sunday that Netanyahu planned to unveil measures to calm tensions in the West Bank during his meeting with Obama, and that these may include removing a few checkpoints and easing certain restrictions on movement.

Shortly before this incident, Border Police officers arrested a Palestinian man caught trying to scale a fence into Givat Hameyasdim in Maale Adumim, a spokesman for the Judea and Samaria police said.

Israeli forces have nabbed the director of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron). Israeli forces have killed at least 77 Palestinians, many of them teenagers.

“The excessive use of force by Israeli military and police, house demolitions and other collective punishments also cannot be permitted to continue”, he warned.