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Biden condemns Palestinian attacks

Xinhua, March 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday and condemned a Palestinian attack Tuesday, which left a U.S. tourist dead outside Tel Aviv.

"The United States condemns this act and condemns the failure to condemn it," Biden told journalists in a media briefing, referring to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who didn't comment on the latest attacks.

Biden's two-day visit was overshadowed by a spate of Palestinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank.

On Tuesday, a U.S. tourist was stabbed to death and 11 people were wounded near where Biden was visiting in Jaffa. The assailant was shot and killed by police.

There were, at least, eight more attacks and attempted attacks over the past two days, which saw the death of at least seven Palestinian assailants, according to Israeli security forces.

Biden said the U.S. supports "Israel's right to defend itself," and thus will increase its security cooperation with Israel.

Biden arrived on Tuesday for talks over a multi-billion 10-year military aid package to Israel. The last military deal, signed in 2007, provided Israel with about 30 billion U.S. dollars by 2017.

The attacks came after a six-month long Palestinian uprising, with almost daily stabbing, shooting, and car-ramming attacks. It claimed the lives of at least 175 Palestinians and 28 Israelis, and shows no sign of abating.

Israel has been accusing the Palestinian Authority of fueling the violence with "incitement" against Israel while the Palestinians say it is the result of 49 years of Israeli occupation of their lands. Endit