Palestinians gather for funeral of shot woman as violence continues

The two were identified as Nour-Adin Saba’aneh, 23, and Mohammed Rafeeq Saba’aneh, 17; Both are from Qabatia town near Jenin in northern West Bank.

According to the Palestinian health ministry, 141 Palestinians have been killed since near-daily attacks and clashes began in October.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, Hammad was shot 10 times by Israeli soldiers before they left her to bleed to death.

Palestinians have killed allegedly 20 Israelis and a United States citizen in the same period, raising fears of a wider escalation, a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided.

Earlier in the day, a 26-yearold Palestinian man was shot and killed by police in Jerusalem’s Tzahal Square opposite the Old City, after charging two officers with a knife.

Earlier an Israeli soldier was stabbed at the main bus station In Jerusalem where many soldiers catch buses back to their bases after a Shabbat break at home.

Weeks before, two 16-year-old Palestinians were shot dead at the checkpoint, one of whom was run over and shot by prominent Israeli settler Gershon Mesika after he said she was attempting to carry out an attack. The man aroused suspicion while walking through the Christian Quarter of the Old City, when asked to show ID he pulled a knife. A nearby security guard apprehended the attacker who was then taken into police custody.

The Israeli military, while confirming the incident, said that one Israeli soldier was injured.

The incident was captured on security camera footage. The latest round of U.S.-brokered peace talks collapsed in April 2014.

Israel says the unrelenting violence is fanned by a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement. The site, Islam’s holiest outside Saudi Arabia, is also revered by many Jews as a vestige of their biblical temples.

Israeli leaders says Islamist groups who call for the destruction of Israel have played a major role in inciting the recent violence.