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Update: 2 Palestinians killed after attempting to attack Israelis in Jerusalem, West Bank

Xinhua, December 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Two Palestinians were shot and killed after attempting to attack Israeli security forces in northern West Bank and east Jerusalem on Saturday, Palestinian medical officials said.

Maher al-Jabbi, 56, tried to run a car over Israeli soldiers at an army barrier south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The soldiers opened fire and critically wounded him, who died shortly after, according to Palestinian Health Ministry and Israeli radio. One of the soldiers was lightly injured.

Earlier on Saturday, another 26-year-old Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli police gunfire in east Jerusalem after he tried to stab an Israeli police officer with a knife. No police was injured.

On Friday, a Palestinian woman was shot and killed by Israeli paramilitary border police guards after allegedly trying to run them over in Silwad, a Palestinian town in the West Bank, 12 km northeast of Ramallah. No Israelis were injured in this attack either.

Twenty-one Israelis and one U.S. citizen were killed since the current wave of ongoing violence started in October, in lone wolf stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks perpetrated by Palestinians.

More than 120 Palestinians have died during this period, some during clashes with Israeli security forces, while others were gunned down after allegedly trying to commit attacks against Israelis.

Israeli leaders blame the Palestinian Authority for incitement to violence due to religious motives, sparked by tensions over the flashpoint holy site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Authority charges the violence is the result of nearly 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip territories, home to more than five million Palestinians, and amid dim prospects of establishing a Palestinian state in these territories, in accordance with the two-state peace solution. Endit