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(Recast) Update 2: 3 Palestinian attackers shot dead amid new surge of violence

Xinhua, November 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Three Palestinian attackers were shot dead on Monday by Israeli security forces after they launched stabbing attacks in a new surge of tensions between the two sides.

Mahmoud Awawdah, spokesman for the Palestinian health ministry in the West Bank, told Xinhua that Israeli security force shot dead a Palestinian young man at an Israeli army barrier near Nablus.

Israeli radio reported that the young man was killed after he tried to stab by a knife an Israeli soldier at the barrier, adding that no one of the Israeli soldiers at the barrier injured.

Later in the day, a second Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli soldiers' gunfire near Ramallah after he stabbed two Israelis, one of them was killed and the other was injured, according to Israeli and Palestinian security sources.

Also on Monday, two Palestinian girls stabbed an elderly with scissors in Jerusalem, before one of them was shot dead, and a Palestinian rammed his vehicle at a Jewish settler in the West Bank.

The stabbing incident occurred Monday morning outside Mahne Yehuda, a busy outdoor market in central Jerusalem.

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the teens stabbed and lightly wounded a 70-year-old Palestinian man, who was apparently mistaken as an Israeli. A 27-year-old security guard was also slightly injured, apparently by a shrapnel, Samri said.

The girls tried to stab other passers-by, but an officer opened fire at them, killing one and severely wounding the other, according to Samri.

The police identified the girls as cousins, aged 14 and 16. Both were residents of Jerusalem. The identity of the deceased was not immediately clear.

An hour later, a Palestinian driver rammed his vehicle at a pedestrian near the Jewish settlement of Shavei Shomron, northwest of Nablus.

"The civilian is lightly wounded and being evacuated to hospital," a spokesperson with the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that forces are "currently in pursuit of the driver who fled the scene."

The fresh attacks erupted ahead of the arrival of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to the region, in an effort to quell the two-month long wave of deadly violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel.

At least 88 Palestinians and 21 Israelis have been killed since the violence started in September. Endit