Two Palestinians killed after Jerusalem knife attack

Three Israelis were injured Wednesday in a stabbing rampage outside of Jerusalem’s Old City, police said.

Israeli border guards deployed in the area at the time of the attack said they “noticed people running in panic and saw two “terrorists” carrying knives and stabbing a man”, al-Samri said. One man is seen hitting the person with a pole.

Israeli forensic police stand next to the body of a Palestinian assailant who was shot dead following a reported stabbing attack next to Jerusalem’s Old City Jaffa Gate on December 23, 2015. “They fired toward the terrorists and neutralized them”.

The latest round in violence that sparked from the beginning of October has killed at least 125 Palestinians and 20 Israelis.

The attack took place just outside the Jaffa gate into the Old City, on a paved walkway under the city wall.

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

Since mid-September, a wave of Palestinian attacks have killed 19 Israelis and an American student.

It said the organisation was proof of Hamas’s increased efforts to use the recent rise in violence in the West Bank to try execute bombing and suicide attacks there and in Israel.

One of the Israelis wounded may have been injured by gunfire when security forces opened fire at the stabbers, police said.

Palestinians are frustrated at the collapse in April 2014 of long-running peace talks with Israel and its 48-year occupation of the West Bank where they seek an independent state.