Israel, Palestinian Territories Suffering Worst Period Of Unrest In Years

Israeli Zaka volunteers carry a body following a shooting attack on a bus in an east Jerusalem Jewish settlement adjacent to the Palestinian neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber on October 13, 2015. Two attackers opened fire on a bus while another assailant carried out a car and knife assault in Jerusalem, leaving two people dead and five wounded in two separate incidents, Israeli authorities said. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX        (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
Israeli Zaka vol­un­teers car­ry a body fol­low­ing a shoot­ing attack on a bus in an east Jerusalem Jewish set­tle­ment adja­cent to the Palestinian neigh­bour­hood of Jabal Mukaber on October 13, 2015. Two attack­ers opened fire on a bus while anoth­er assailant car­ried out a car and knife assault in Jerusalem, leav­ing two peo­ple dead and five wound­ed in two sep­a­rate inci­dents, Israeli author­i­ties said. AFP PHOTO /​THOMAS COEX (Photo cred­it should read THOMAS COEX/​AFP/​Getty Images)

Palestinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least three peo­ple and wound­ed sev­er­al oth­ers in a string of attacks in Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, police said, on a “Day of Rage” declared by Palestinian groups. With the worst unrest in years in Israel and the Palestinian ter­ri­to­ries show­ing no signs of abat­ing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a secu­ri­ty cab­i­net meet­ing for 3 p.m. to dis­cuss what police said would be new oper­a­tional plans.

Officials said Israel’s pub­lic secu­ri­ty min­is­ter was con­sid­er­ing whether to seal off Palestinian neigh­bor­hoods in East Jerusalem, home of many of the assailants of the past two weeks, from the rest of the city. Unlike their brethren in the occu­pied West Bank, Palestinians in East Jerusalem can trav­el in Israel with­out restric­tions. Israel annexed East Jerusalem after a 1967 war in a move that is not rec­og­nized inter­na­tion­al­ly. Adding to a grow­ing sense of Israeli pub­lic inse­cu­ri­ty, two Palestinians shot and stabbed pas­sen­gers on a bus in Jerusalem, killing two and injur­ing four, police said. One of the assailants was killed, an ambu­lance ser­vice spokesman said, and the oth­er captured.

We don’t know what to do, or where to walk,” Avi Shemesh, a wit­ness to the attack, told reporters. “They are Israel-haters and they need to be elim­i­nat­ed.” Minutes lat­er, anoth­er Palestinian rammed his car into a bus stop in the cen­ter of Jerusalem, then got out and began stab­bing pedes­tri­ans, killing one and wound­ing six, police said. They said the attack­er had been “neu­tral­ized”, with­out say­ing what this meant. Seven Israelis and 27 Palestinians, includ­ing nine alleged attack­ers and eight chil­dren, have died in almost two weeks of street attacks and secu­ri­ty crack­downs. The vio­lence has been stirred in part by Muslim anger over increas­ing Jewish vis­its to the al-Aqsa mosque com­pound in Jerusalem, Islam’s holi­est site out­side the Arabian Peninsula.
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