Two Palestinians killed attempting to run over Israeli soldiers

Last month at Qalandiya, Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians when heavy clashes erupted during an operation to demolish the home of an alleged attacker, part of a series of punitive demolitions.

“We continue to be gravely concerned at the unrelenting violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and in Israel”, Pouilly said, adding, “We call on both Israeli and Palestinian leaders to act decisively to de-escalate the situation”. Abbas has previously refrained from either endorsing or condemning the attacks, often referring to the wave of violence as understandable but not in the best interests of the Palestinian people.

Palestinians aged 18 to 22, a demographic dubbed the “Oslo generation” because they were born after the 1993 Oslo Accords, are the most supportive of an armed intifada and stabbings and the least supportive of the two-state solution. “They just despaired of the two-state solution”.

“The Palestinian public thinks Abbas does not support the current confrontation and is not serious [pursuing] diplomatic confrontation with Israel, which is why he is losing support”, Khalil Shikaki, head of the PSR, told AFP. The survey’s margin of error is 3 percent.

She pointed out that in the H2 area of Hebron alone, 16 of the 17 Palestinians allegedly involved in attacks against Israelis since October 1 were shot dead, while one had been injured and arrested. Israel has said that 78 of them were assailants, and the rest were killed in clashes with Israeli forces.

Israeli police say two Palestinians attacked Israeli security forces and were killed during a night raid in the West Bank.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says police arrested a suspect in his 30s from the West Bank village of Beit Sira.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled a possible warming of relations with Israel, saying in comments published Monday that the entire region would benefit from the normalization of ties.

Late Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered that concrete barriers be placed near hundreds of bus stops in Jerusalem to protect people against similar attacks, his office said.