New Israeli-Palestinian violence

Two Palestinians were killed and another was injured in various incidents in the West Bank and Jerusalem, while an Israeli policeman was injured, according to army, hospital sources and a Palestinian ministry.

A Palestinian who attempted to enter Israel through the separation barrier from the West Bank was killed by the Israeli army, the army and a hospital reported.

In a statement, the army said it had met a [personne] trying to bypass the security barrier […] near Tulkarem. The soldiers gave him fired according to procedures.

A spokesman for the Israeli Sheba Hospital later told AFP that the Palestinian had died from his injuries.

Also that night, a man stabbed an Israeli policeman near the Old City of Jerusalem before being shot and wounded by Israeli forces, Israeli police and medics said. The police were taken to the hospital.

Finally, a Palestinian armed with a knife entered an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, where he was shot by a resident, the Israeli army reported.

A terrorist armed with a knife entered the colony [de Tekoa, située entre Jérusalem et Bethléem]and he was shot by a civilian who tried to stop himsaid the army.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the 17-year-old culprit had died.

Two suspects were arrested

This violence occurs after the police announcement of the arrest of two terrorists who killed three Israeli civilians in the attack held Thursday in the city of Elad, located near the metropolis of Tel Aviv.

Police launched an extensive search to find two Palestinians aged 19 and 20, from the village of Roummaneh, in the Jenin region of the West Bank.

According to witnesses, the perpetrators jumped from a car and attacked passersby with axes before fleeing aboard the vehicle. Three Israelis were killed and four were injured, one of them in critical condition.

Several attacks have targeted Israelis since March 22, in Israel and in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by the Israeli army since 1967.

The two suspects in Thursday’s attack were found near the town of Elad. They surrendered and confessed, an Israeli military official said Sunday.

A symbolic attack

They entered Israel through a porous separation barrier from the West Bank hours before the attack, the military source added, calling their infiltration afailure for the army of Israel.

The attack on Thursday in Elad took place on the day of the celebration for the 74th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel, which for Palestinians represents a nakba (catastrophe, in Arabic) and synonymous with exodus for hundreds of thousands of them.

Hamas – the Islamist movement that controls the Palestinian enclave of Gaza under Israeli blockade – and Islamic Jihad have accepted an attack heroismwhich is said to be the result of tensions around the esplanade of Mosques in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian sector of the Holy City occupied by Israel.

In recent weeks, clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians have left about 300 injured, mainly on the esplanade of Mosques. This site, the third holiest of Islam, is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Clashes on the esplanade of Mosques

Thursday, after Jewish worshipers returned to the esplanade – which is also considered the holiest place in Judaism under its name Temple Mount – clashes erupted between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police.

Under the unspoken status quo, non-Muslims can go to the esplanade, but not pray there.

A growing number of Jews are coming there, and the fact that some of them are praying there raises fears that this status quo will challenge many Muslims, even as Israel has repeatedly wanted to keep it.

In all, since March 22, 18 people have been killed in anti-Israeli attacks in Israel and the West Bank, carried out by Israeli and Palestinian Arabs.

In the wake of the initial attacks, Israeli forces conducted operations in the West Bank, specifically in the Jenin region, where the attackers originated. Twenty -nine Palestinians, including the attackers, have been killed since then.