Two killed, two injured in West Bank attack

Then he pulled out a knife and tried to stab one of them. Eyewitnesses refuted the military allegations.

Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians at the Huwara checkpoint as violence continues in the occupied West Bank.

In the first incident, Israeli police said a Palestinian driver sped toward Israeli forces in the village of Silwad, north of Ramallah. New violence erupted in the West Bank the day before with four Palestinian attackers shot dead by Israeli forces, as Israel recoiled over a video showing Jewish extremists apparently celebrating a Palestinian toddler’s death.

Nearly daily Palestinian stabbing, car-rammings and shooting attacks have killed 20 Israelis and a USA citizen, raising fears of a wider escalation a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, criticised the Palestinian Authority – which he said “encourages and incites” the attacks – at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.

In another stabbing attack in the capital, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed an IDF soldier on Sunday morning near Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station. ‘Police officers spotted a man who aroused their suspicions and approached him to check, ‘ a police spokeswoman said.

It was the second attack in Jerusalem in less than 24 hours.

A Palestinian official reportedly said that the proposal to draw up borders was specifically an attempt to prevent the bubbling over of tensions on the Palestinian street.

Israeli soldiers stand guard near the scene where two Palestinians stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier near the West Bank city of Nablus on December 27.

Israel has blamed Palestinians for the outbreak of violence.

Police used non-lethal means, including tear gas, to disperse the mob when several demonstrators began throwing rocks at officers, Rosenfeld said, adding that no arrests or injuries were reported.