Unrest spreads after more killings in Israel

11/11/2014| IslamWeb

An Israeli soldier and a woman have been killed, and two others injured in separate stabbing incidents in Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank, Israeli police have said.

Monday's incidents came amid a wave of unrest in parts of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories following the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli soldiers last Wednesday.

The violence began in Tel Aviv where a Palestinian teenager from the northern West Bank stabbed a 20-year-old soldier, leaving him in critical condition. The soldier died of his wounds in hospital late on Monday night.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, said officers had arrested the Tel Aviv attacker, who stabbed the soldier several times, adding that he was from the town of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

"He is currently under interrogation," Rosenfeld said.

In the second attack, a Palestinian man stabbed three Israelis at the entrance of the Alon Shvut settlement in the West Bank on Monday evening, Israeli police said, adding that the attacker was then shot by the guard.

A 25-year-old Israeli woman died in the incident and the other two victims have been hospitalized for minor injuries.

Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from Jerusalem, said: "One of the guards stationed at the entrance shot the attacker. There are conflicting reports whether the Palestinian attacker was killed or is being treated in hospital."

"Settlements are gated communities with armed guards and high walls with high protection," our correspondent said, referring to residential areas in the southern West Bank where Israelis live.

Netanyahu was expected to convene a security consultation meeting with the Israeli defense minister and interior minister later on Monday.

Ongoing unrest has been triggered by Muslim fears of Jewish encroachment at the sacred site where the Al-Aqsa mosque stands, a hilltop plateau known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews as the Temple Mount.

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An Israeli border policeman shoots a rubber-coated bullet at Palestinian protesters, as Israeli police limited the access to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

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