Palestinians killed by Israeli army since October. 1

In East Jerusalem, a 16-year-old Palestinian allegedly tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint at East Talpiot settlement near Jabal al-Mukaber neighbourhood but was shot dead by other soldiers.

The five knife assaults, which took place in the West Bank and Jerusalem, illustrated that the month-long rise in tensions between Israelis and Palestinians is showing no sign of abating.

A bystander had reported the youth as acting suspiciously.

In one case a Palestinian child of 13 was filmed bleeding to death, two of his legs broken after being hit by a vehicle, while onlookers yelled racist obscenities at him following the stabbing of two Jews in Pisgav Zeev, a settlement near Jerusalem.

Palestinian propaganda that Netanyahu is moving to desecrate the mosque has propelled knife attacks on Israelis, as well as the burning of Joseph’s Tomb, a Jewish holy site on the West Bank believed to be the resting place of the biblical patriarch.

Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in stone-throwing clashes, two in Gaza, near the border with Israel, and one in the West Bank town of Beit Furik, Palestinian medics said. It has deployed soldiers in Israeli cities and erected concrete barriers outside a few Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, where most of the attackers came from. The images, widely circulated on social media, made no mention of the preceding attack by Ahmed and his cousin Hassan, 15, who was then shot and killed by police Monday.

Hard-line Jewish activists have begun demanding greater access to the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, in Jerusalem’s Old City, and right-wing politicians have called for the rights of Jews to pray there.

Muslims fear Israel will seek to change rules governing the site, though Netanyahu has said repeatedly he has no intention of doing so.

But right now, he said, “everybody needs to focus on making sure that innocent people aren’t being killed”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his government would start going after the finances of the Islamic Movement in Israel, a group he accuses of being the chief inciter of the recent violence.

But the Palestinian version of the day’s violence was different.

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio kicked off a brief visit to Israel on Saturday, saying he was on a solidarity mission with the country.

Al Jazeera reports that the continued violence follows an Israeli rejection of a Palestinian proposal to let an worldwide force police the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. A “Palestinian man’s” daughter said…Sheesh.

The Israeli military says an Israeli in the West Bank has shot a Palestinian who tried to stab him.

Israel also on Sunday implemented a previously approved measure allowing security forces to search people whenever they feel necessary.

Israel says it is keeping the status quo at the holy compound.

A third died near the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank.

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 site is located in an area under Palestinian self-rule and visits by Jews are coordinated between Palestinian security forces and Israeli troops.