Palestinians Stab 3 In Jerusalem, 1 Shot Dead

Three people were seriously wounded in the attack, two of whom later died.

Since mid-September, a wave of Palestinian attacks have killed 19 Israelis and an American student. The one surviving member of the family, Ahmed, 4, is still undergoing treatment in an Israeli hospital.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish volunteers carry away on a stretcher the body of a Palestinian assailant who was shot dead following a stabbing attack next to Jerusalem’s Old City Jaffa Gate.

A police spokesperson said the incident occurred in the afternoon near the Old City’s Jaffa Gate, a popular tourist spot.

Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon has said Israel was determined to bring those responsible to trial, adding that he considered the arson “a Jewish terrorist act”.

According to the Israeli police, the attack took place at 3 A.M, when the Palestinian family was asleep.

Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that Amjad Zayed, Sami al-Sultan and two other fishermen who were not identified were detained by naval forces after their fishing vessel was confiscated. Israel has not yet pressed charges in the attack, though it is holding three suspects.

This story was last updated at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

This video shows police and emergency services responding at the scene.

Also Wednesday, the Israeli Shin Bet intelligence agency said it had uncovered “a wide terrorist infrastructure” of the militant Islamic group Hamas in the West Bank and Israel, directed from Gaza.

Young Jewish men from wildcat settlement outposts in the West Bank and known as the “hilltop youth” have been blamed for violence and vandalism targeting Palestinians, Christian holy sites and even Israeli military property.

The Shin Bet said it had also found an apartment in Abu Dis rented by the group’s leader and equipped with materials that could be used to make bombs.

A court official said security had been stepped up outside the home of a judge presiding over the case, and postings on social media, including a photograph of the jurist emblazoned with the word “guilty”, accused him of failing to stop Shin Bet mistreatment of the suspects.