Israeli forces kill Palestinian amidst alleged attack in West Bank

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian after he stabbed and lightly injured a Jewish settler in flashpoint Hebron city in the West Bank on Friday afternoon, a military statement said.

A surge of violence on Friday saw the death of two more Palestinians and a Jordanian national.

At noon, police shot and killed a citizen of Jordan after he pulled two knives at them outside East Jerusalem's Old City, according to police spokeswoman Luba Samri.

Later, two Palestinians attempted to carry out a car-ramming attack outside the settlement of Kiryat Arba, according to the military.

A military spokesperson said that soldiers who guarded a bus station at the Elias Junction shot at the vehicle, killing a Palestinian man and seriously wounding a Palestinian woman in the car.

Also in the Hebron area, soldiers killed a 21-year-old man from the Beit Ula village. Local media said he was shot as he was trying to escape an arrest by the military.

A year-long spate of violence in Israel and the West Bank has killed at least 230 Palestinians and 34 Israelis.

Israeli leaders accuse the Palestinian National Authority of "inciting" the unrest, while the Palestinians say it is the result of 49 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, home to more than five million Palestinians, where they wish to establish their own state. Endit