Palestinian shot dead after stabbing Israeli policemen in Jerusalem

[bemildred]

Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian man on Friday after he stabbed two police officers outside Jerusalem's walled Old City, police said, as a wave of heightened violence persisted into its fifth month.

The bloodshed has raised concern of wider escalation a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided.

"The terrorist attacked a police team from behind, stabbed and lightly wounded them. The team responded by gunfire and neutralized the terrorist," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said, adding that the man was killed.

On Thursday two Palestinian 14-year-olds stabbed and killed an Israeli in a supermarket in the occupied West Bank before an armed civilian shot and wounded the teens, who were taken for treatment to Israeli hospitals in Jerusalem.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-idUSKCN0VS0SH

[bemildred]

1. Palestinian shot dead trying to run over Israeli soldiers in West Bank

JERUSALEM, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian man was killed after allegedly trying to run over Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Friday afternoon, the Israeli army said.

The incident took place in Silwad, a Palestinian village northeast of Ramallah, where clashes were taking place between soldiers and local residents, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said, adding that soldiers responded by shooting at and killing the assailant.

This is the second attack on Friday, amid an ongoing five months of violence between Palestinians and Israelis.

Earlier on Friday, two Israeli policemen were injured in a stabbing attack at the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Israeli police said. The assailant, identified as a 20-year-old resident of an east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood, was killed by a policeman at the scene.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-02/19/c_135114485.htm

[Eugene]

2. Israeli forces shoot dead three Palestinian assailants

Source: Reuters

World | Fri Feb 19, 2016 1:53pm EST

Israeli forces shoot dead three Palestinian assailants

JERUSALEM

Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinian assailants in separate incidents in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on Friday, police and the military said, as a wave of heightened violence persisted into its fifth month.

In Jerusalem, a Palestinian man stabbed two police officers outside the walled Old City before they opened fire and killed him, police said.

A few hours later, in the West Bank, a Palestinian man tried to ram his car into a group of Israeli soldiers who then shot him dead, the military said.

A third Palestinian man was killed by Israeli soldiers in a clash elsewhere in the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said he was armed with an automatic weapon and fired on the troops during a riot.

[font size=1]-snip-[/font]

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-idUSKCN0VS0SH