Three Israelis killed in Jerusalem attacks

Another Israeli died after being run down and stabbed elsewhere in the city.

The security measures were outlined in a statement released by the Israeli government and followed a meeting of the Security Cabinet on late Tuesday night. It did not say which specific areas could be closed as part of the new security measures.

The violence also comes at a time when prospects for negotiating an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appear nil and appears to have been fueled by a deep sense of frustration among Palestinians, who believe that all paths to gaining independence and ending almost half a century of Israeli occupation have been blocked. IDF units will also be used to reinforce police in cities and along roads.

“Today we will decide on a series of additional aggressive steps in our war against terrorists and inciters”, Netanyahu said in a speech to parliament.

Twin attacks in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning took the lives of three Israelis, and wounded over 20 others.

At least three people were killed and many wounded as a two-week-old upsurge of Palestinian violence in Israel escalated yesterday.

In Norway, the online edition of the country’s second-largest newspaper, Verdens Gang, informed its readers on October 10 that “a Palestinian was killed in East Jerusalem” in the headline of an article that also noted that the Palestinian died while stabbing a Jew.

On Tuesday evening, a Palestinian man from Bethlehem was killed during clashes in the West Bank city with Israeli troops.

Two assailants using a pistol and knives assaulted 15 bus passengers, killing two Israelis before one attacker was shot dead.

Palestinian terror groups have celebrated the attacks. Netanyahu put the blame on Abbas, and called on him to “stop lying and spreading” incitement to kill Jews, according to the Wall Street Journal. The attackers, many of them teenagers, have had no affiliation with militant groups, and the seemingly random nature of the stabbings has made it hard to predict or prevent them.

The near-simultaneous attacks, along with two stabbings in the central Israeli city of Raanana, marked the most serious outbreak of violence since the current round of tensions erupted. Netanyahu has come under heavy criticism for failing to stop the violence, and an opinion poll this week showed that more than 70 percent of the public is dissatisfied with his handling of the crisis.

Netanyahu accused Israel’s Arab leaders of inciting the violence and directed Israeli-Arab citizens to “kick out the extremists among you”.

“Do not be misled by agitators who want to ignite the fire in the country”. Israeli Arab towns called a general strike Monday to protest recent tensions.

The violence erupted last month over the Jewish New Year, fueled by rumors that Israel was plotting to take over Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. The Israeli military said he was hurling a firebomb at a auto. They are angry over increasing Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.