Two Palestinians shot dead after stabbing two Israelis in West Bank

The fatal incident on Saturday followed two stabbings this week inside settlements carried out by Palestinian teenagers, according to Israeli authorities.

Two Palestinians stabbed Israeli women in a mini-market in a West Bank settlement before being shot dead, Israeli police have said.

Israeli security officials blamed the upsurge of teenage attackers on the influence of the Palestinian media as well as jihadi sites offering instruction in bomb making.

Abbas said during a meeting with journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah that the move aims at “establishing a mechanism to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and implementing the Arab peace initiative”.

Palestinian security sources identified the three as Riad Fares Abu al-Hassan, 20, Ala Ewis, 27, and Fadi Nidal Abu al-Saud, 20 and who was just coming back from a trip to Jordan.

Two Israeli women were wounded in the attack, one critically, he added. “There’s no reason in the world for her to be shot and killed”, her father Eid Abu-Eid told AFP after the funeral. Outside the grocery they encountered a 23-year-old woman and stabbed her as well.

Video footage published by Israeli media appears to show her clutching a knife and running at the private security guard who then shoots her dead.

Hours later, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came out against Palestinian groups he said were encouraging youth to take part in an nearly four-month long surge of violence with Israel which has raised concern of wider escalation a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided. A second Palestinian teen stabbed a pregnant Israeli woman in a supermarket in Tekoa, and was also arrested.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the home of the Palestinian teen accused of the fatal stabbing in Otniel would be demolished as a deterrent. Her teenaged assailant was shot by a resident as he attempted to escape and was subsequently detained. Most of the others have died in violent protests.