Status: 05/09/2022 03:42 a.m
The violence in Israel and the West Bank has not stopped for weeks. Now two more people have apparently been killed and two others injured. Israel also reports the arrest of two suspected assassins.
Violent incidents between Palestinians and Israelis have broken out again in the West Bank and in Jerusalem. Two Palestinians were reportedly killed and an Israeli police officer and a Palestinian were said to have been injured in three incidents on Sunday.
Incidents in the West Bank and Jerusalem
According to the Israeli army, a Palestinian armed with a knife was shot dead by a resident after entering the Jewish settlement of Tekoa in the south of the occupied West Bank. Soldiers then searched for “further suspects,” the army said. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the dead man was a 17-year-old.
In a second incident, according to the army, Israeli soldiers shot at a Palestinian who was trying to cross the barrier to Israel near Tulkarem in the north of the West Bank. He was taken for medical treatment. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, he later succumbed to his gunshot wounds.
In addition, according to Israeli police, a police officer was attacked by a Palestinian with a knife in the Old City of Jerusalem. According to the police, the attacker was “neutralized”. The police officer was taken to the hospital with injuries. According to doctors, the attacker did not die.
Israel: Suspected assassin arrested
Meanwhile, Israeli security forces reported the arrest of two suspected Palestinian assassins. The 19 and 20-year-old men are suspected of stabbing three people and injuring four others in the ultra-Orthodox city of Elad on Thursday, the police, military and secret service said. After a major manhunt, including helicopters, they were found not far from Elad.
During the attack in Elad on Thursday evening, Israel’s 74th Independence Day, two assassins attacked passers-by with axes in the city on the eastern outskirts of Tel Aviv and then fled in their car. A majority of Elad’s 50,000 residents are ultra-Orthodox Jews.
According to the police, the suspects were two 19 and 20-year-old Palestinians from the town of Rummanah near Jenin in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Persistent Violence
The attack in Elad and Sunday’s incidents were the latest in a long line. Anti-Israeli attacks in Israel and the West Bank have killed 18 people since March 22, including an Arab-Israeli police officer and two Ukrainians.
During the same period, 29 Palestinians and three Arab Israelis were killed in operations by Israeli security forces, including in the Jenin region of the West Bank.