ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/ATTACK-NETANYAHU Fresh stabbing attack against Israelis, Netanyahu denies Palestinian 'frustration' to blame

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  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/ATTACK-NETANYAHU Fresh stabbing attack against Israelis, Netanyahu denies Palestinian 'frustration' to blame
  • Date: 12th October 2015
  • Summary: PISGAT ZEEV, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 12, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF AMBULANCE AT SCENE VARIOUS OF POLICE MEMBERS CHECKING CLOTHES OF PALESTINIAN STABBER NEAR HIS BODY ON GROUND ISRAELI POLICE MEMBERS AT SCENE MORE OF BODY OF PALESTINIAN STABBER ON GROUND (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) EYE WITNESS, SAYING: "One of the children called me, I quickly ran to catch them. This is a state of fea
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    Israeli security and rescue services swarmed to the site of a fresh stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement on Monday (October 12) after two Palestinians stabbed two Israelis in the worst spell of street violence for years.
    Two Palestinian men carried out stabbing that injured two Israelis, one of them critically, in Pisgat Zeev on the northern edge of Jerusalem, police said.
    An eye-witness who was at the attack scene said that he ran to catch the attackers.
    "One of the children called me, I quickly ran to catch them. This is a state of fear; this is disgrace; in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood they come," she said.
    Police said one of the assailants in Pisgat Zeev, built on occupied land that Israel annexed to Jerusalem after the 1967 Middle East war, was shot and killed and the other was wounded.
    "Police units responded to a third terrorist attack here in Jerusalem, two Israeli members injured seriously, two terrorist were shot, one was shot and killed, second terrorist were shot in serious condition. The area has been cordoned off and we are maintaining security in order to prevent any further attacks here in Jerusalem throughout the day," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
    Earlier, a knife-wielding Palestinian woman wounded a paramilitary border policeman in central Jerusalem.
    Hours earlier, a border policeman shot dead a Palestinian who police said tried to stab him, according to Israeli police. The account was disputed by a Palestinian passerby, who said he witnessed the incident and saw no knife.
    Four Israelis and 25 Palestinians, including seven alleged assailants and eight children, have died in 12 days of bloodshed, stirred in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, which is also revered by Jews as the site of two destroyed biblical temples and is Islam's third holiest site.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel's parliament, at the opening of their winter session, that the attacks cannot be blamed on Palestinian "frustration".
    "It must be understood once and for all: Terror does not stem from frustration due to the lack of progress in the diplomatic process, terror stems from a wish to destroy us. This was the motive for terror in the first days of Zionism and it is the motive nowadays," Netanyahu said.
    Near-daily stabbing attacks have raised speculation Palestinians could be embarking on another uprising, or Intifada as they call it, reflecting a new generation's frustrations over their veteran leadership's failure to achieve statehood in peace efforts with Israel that collapsed in 2014.
    Monday's violence followed the deployment of 2,000 police reinforcements in Jerusalem, but Israeli leaders have said they have no quick fix against largely "lone wolf" assaults.
    The violence has spread from Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Israel's interior and Hamas-ruled Gaza.
    Later on Monday. Palestinians clashed with the Israeli police by Beit El settlement near the West Bank city of Ramallah, who fired back teargas and rubber bullets.
    Israel has said it has no intention of allowing any change to the status quo under at Islam's third holiest site, which Jews are allowed to visit but where non-Muslim prayer is banned.
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