Israel says further knife attacks thwarted, three Palestinians dead

In a second incident in Hebron, a Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli border policewoman at the Ashmoret Yitzhak border police base, according to Israeli police.

One headline caught my eye: "Israelis gun down alleged assailants in new attacks". There were no further details. The assailants were all shot and killed. There was no word on the attacker's condition.

On Saturday night, the Israeli army said a soldier was stabbed and moderately wounded in Hebron.

Meanwhile, amid heightened tensions between Israel and Palestine, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio kicked off his visit to Israel Saturday.

De Blasio met with his Tel Aviv counterpart, Ron Huldai, in the seaside city early Saturday before attending an event sponsored by a mixed Israeli-Palestinian school.

Later in the day, Mayor de Blasio will meet with Jerusalem's mayor, and will visit a medical center to meet with victims of terror attacks.

Peace talks collapsed in 2014 over Israeli settlement-building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas Palestinians seek for a state, and after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas angered Israel by reaching a unity deal with the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.

Clashes were also reported between Israeli military forces and Palestinian protesters near the illegal Beit El settlement on the outskirts of Ramallah.

Local sources informed WAFA that an Israeli female soldier opened gunfire at Bayyan al-Isaili, 16, after she allegedly carried out a stabbing attack against a female soldier at an Israeli military checkpoint to the east of the city of Hebron, killing her instantly. A Palestinian teenager was shot dead in Jerusalem by police, who say he drew a knife on them.

A Palestinian holding Palestinian flags stands on a burning vehicle belonging to Jewish settlers after it was set on fire by Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus, October 18, 2015.

Eight Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, a lot of them stabbings. Even if a Palestinian journalist possesses one, it does not necessarily help when clashes spontaneously erupt and troops use various means to suppress unrest.

Three Palestinians who targeted Jews in knife attacks have been killed, according to Israeli forces.

Israeli authorities said the soldier suffered minor injuries to her hand.

On Friday, Palestinian assailants firebombed the West Bank compound.

Israeli United Nations Ambassador Danny Dannon said Palestinian incitement, not Israel's decades-long military rule of Palestinians, was responsible for the outbreak of violence.

Two people died as a result of confrontations with Israeli troops on the Gaza border. A few 40 Palestinians have died, almost half of them identified by Israel as attackers and others in clashes with Israeli forces. On the edge of the Issawiyeh neighborhood, drivers honked their horns at a group of Israeli police and paramilitary border police who were taking their time checking each auto and asking a few of the younger Palestinians to lift up their shirts to they were not armed.

None of the Israeli Jews who have stabbed Palestinians, or stabbed other Israeli Jews mistaking them for Palestinians, have been summarily executed.

Over the past month, nine Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, a lot of them stabbings.

Palestinians are also angry at increasing violence by illegal Israeli settlers, who frequently storm al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.

Saturday's incident took place in a Jewish neighborhood of Hebron, a frequent flashpoint where a few hundred Jews live in close proximity to tens of thousands of Palestinians.

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