The attacks came after Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian who they say tried to stab a soldier in the West Bank.
A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 70-year-old Israeli man, seriously
wounding him as he walked down the street in the northern city of
Netanya, police said Monday evening before he was shot and wounded by
police.
Earlier, Israeli police said a Palestinian stabbed an 80-year-old woman
in the back on a street in Rishon Lezion near Tel Aviv Monday afternoon
and then stabbed a man in the chest before continuing to run down the
street and carrying out another attack. Police Spokeswoman Luba Samri
said that after stabbing the first two Israelis, the Palestinian, a
19-year-old from the West Bank
city of Hebron, tried to enter a clothing shop but a woman in the store
slammed a door on him. The Palestinian then went into a cosmetics store
and stabbed another man. Bystanders managed to tackle and apprehend the
attacker. Police then arrived on motorcycles and detained him.
Yitzhak Scharf of Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center said that 80-year-old
woman was stabbed in the back and waist and sustained damage to blood
vessels and fractured her hip. A 40-year-old man was stabbed multiple
times in the chest. Another person was lightly wounded he said.
The military said the earlier incident in the West Bank
was the third attempted stabbing near the checkpoint between the West
Bank and Israel in recent weeks. After soldiers approached two
Palestinians at a gas station, one attempted to stab a soldier with a
knife before the soldiers shot him, the army said.
Forces treated the wounded Palestinian at the scene, the army said, but
he died of his wounds. Palestinian officials said he was 16 years old.
The other Palestinian was arrested. The official Palestinian news agency
Wafa said he was wounded in the incident.
Video later emerged of a Palestinian smashing a female tour guide over
the head with a bottle and then running away outside Jerusalem's Old
City. Police said they later apprehended the Palestinian.
A series of Palestinian attacks linked to tensions over a sensitive
Jerusalem holy site began in mid-September. In addition to the
near-daily attacks, violent demonstrations have erupted in Israel, the
West Bank and Gaza, with Palestinian stone-throwers clashing with
Israeli troops.
Eleven Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly
stabbings. Sixty-nine Palestinians have died by Israeli fire, including
43 who Israel says were involved in attacks or attempted attacks.
Israel says the outburst of violence is the result of Palestinian
incitement. Palestinians say the violence stems from a lack of hope for
gaining independence after years of failed peace efforts.
In the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday, Palestinian security forces
held a military salute at a funeral ceremony for two Palestinians
killed by Israeli fire. One had tried to grab a soldier's rifle in
Jerusalem, and the other had tried to stab a soldier at a West Bank
checkpoint, according to the Israeli military.
The Palestinian Authority has been holding official funeral parades in
recent weeks in order to prevent militant groups like Hamas from using
such ceremonies to whip up popular support, a senior Palestinian
security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not
authorized to speak publicly about the practice.
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