New tide of Israeli-Palestinian violence
Violence has spread from Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Israel's interior and Hamas-ruled Gaza, fueled in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. The new wave of violence has come at a bleak time for peace prospects.
In weekend violence, an Arab attacker armed with a gun and knife killed an Israeli soldier and wounded 10 people at the central bus station in the Israeli town of Beersheba, October 18, 2015. The attacker was killed. An Eritrean migrant, mistaken for the gunman, was shot by a guard and then beaten by a mob. He died from his injuries.
A Palestinian protester burns a replica flag during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Bet El near the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 18, 2015.
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Israeli police stand at the site where two alleged Palestinian attackers were shot by Israeli police after attempting to board a bus carrying children then stabbing an Israeli, in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, on October 22, 2015.
The two men were blocked from entering the bus by the driver and others. They then wounded a 25-year-old Israeli man near the bus station, according to police spokes.
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Israelis (C) who are suspected to have participated in what Israel's defense minister termed a lynching, sit in court in Beersheba, October 22, 2015.
An Eritrean migrant shot by a security guard and beaten by an angry crowd of Israelis, after being mistakenly identified as a gunman in Beersheba, died of his injuries on October 18.
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People attend a memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv on October 21, 2015 for Habtom Zarhum, an Eritrean migrant who was mistaken for a gunman at a shooting attack October 18.
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Israeli police stand by the shrouded body of an Arab attacker in Beersheba, Israel, October 18, 2015. The man, armed with a gun and a knife, opened fire in a southern Israel bus station, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people in one of the boldest attacks yet in a month long wave of violence.
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Israeli border police check Palestinian's identification cards at a checkpoint as they exit the Arab neighborhood of Issawiyeh in Jerusalem, October 22, 2015.
Israel beefed up security across the country, sending hundreds of soldiers to back up thousands of police officers. Police erected concrete barriers and checkpoints at the entrance to Arab areas of east Jerusalem, where many of the attackers are from.
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Left-wing Israeli protesters participate in a demonstration calling for peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem, October 17, 2015.
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An Israeli policeman checks a Palestinian man at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, October 17, 2015.
Three Palestinians were shot dead on Saturday in what Israel said were thwarted knife attacks in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank as tensions ran high after more than two weeks of unrest.
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Iza Gobberg, center, reacts during her son Alon Gobberg's funeral in Jerusalem, Wednesday, October 14, 2015. Gobberg was stabbed to death by a Palestinian on October 13.
The latest escalation came October 13, 2015, when two Palestinian men boarded a Jerusalem bus, shooting and stabbing passengers, while another assailant drove a car into a bus station and stabbed others in near simultaneous attacks. Three Israelis and one attacker were killed, escalating a month long wave of violence.
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An Israeli soldier talks to a woman inside a supermarket as security forces search inside the Central Jerusalem Bus Station after police said a woman was stabbed by a Palestinian outside the bus station, October 14, 2015.
A Palestinian stabbed and moderately wounded a 70-year-old woman outside Jerusalem's central bus station, at the entrance to the city, before an officer shot him dead, a police spokeswoman said.
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An Israeli policeman searches a supermarket inside the Central Jerusalem Bus Station after a woman was stabbed by a Palestinian outside the bus station, October 14, 2015.
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The sister of 27-year-old Palestinian Mutaz Zawahereh, who was killed by Israeli troops during clashes October 13, 2015, touches his body during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 14.
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Israeli border police search a man driving out of the Palestinian neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber in Jerusalem, Wednesday, October 14, 2015.
Israel erected checkpoints in some Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem Wednesday and deployed hundreds of police officers and soldiers on roads and buses as it stepped up security following a series of attacks in Jerusalem.
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Israeli police stand around a Palestinian, shot after he allegedly tried to stab a person at Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, October 14, 2015, according to Israeli police. No Israelis were wounded in the attempted attack.
Tensions in the area continue to run high following multiple terror attacks that have occurred in Jerusalem and and in clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces. Wednesday's incident brings the Palestinian death toll since the start of the current wave of violence to 30, among them 13 identified by Israel as attackers with the others killed in clashes. Eight Israelis have been killed in attacks by Palestinians.
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A Palestinian girl takes cover from a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 14, 2015.
The violence has been partly triggered by Palestinians' anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also revered by Jews as the site of two destroyed Jewish temples.
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Palestinian protesters carry a pole to close the road during clashes with the Israeli troops close to the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 13, 2015.
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A woman stands at a window overlooking a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the northern Israeli town of Sakhnin, October 13, 2015.
Israel's leading Arab politician was in the middle of a television interview on a street in its biggest Arab city when the mayor, also an Arab, pulled up in his car and started shouting at him to leave. With Palestinian knife attacks on the rise, the live TV encounter illustrated a conflict within Israel's Arab minority between sympathy for Palestinian brethren in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, and concern over a Jewish backlash.
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A relative of 27-year-old Palestinian Mutaz Zawahereh, who was killed by Israeli troops during clashes on October 13, 2015, is comforted as she mourns during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 14.
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Thousands of Utra-Othodox Jews walk behind the body of 60-year old Yishaya Krashevsky during his funeral after he was killed earlier in the day when a Palestinian drove a car into pedestrians waiting at a bus stop in an Ultra-Orthodox area of Jerusalem on October 13, 2015.
In response to the increasing violence, Israel was planning an emergency meeting of its security cabinet and considered whether to seal off Palestinian neighborhoods in east Jerusalem.
"Day of Rage" - Violence in Israel
Violence has spread from Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Israel's interior and Hamas-ruled Gaza, fueled in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and Palestinians attacking Israelis with knives, rocks and, in at least one incident, guns. The new wave of violence has come at a bleak time for peace prospects.
The latest escalation came October 13, 2015, when two Palestinian men boarded a Jerusalem bus, shooting and stabbing passengers, while another assailant drove a car into a bus station and stabbed others in near simultaneous attacks. Three Israelis and one attacker were killed, escalating a monthlong wave of violence.
In this photo, Israeli police are reflected in a bullet-ridden window of a bus after an attack in Jerusalem, October 13, 2015.
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Medics attend the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, October 13, 2015.
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Israeli emergency personnel stand near a covered body at the scene of an attack on a Jerusalem bus, October 13, 2015.
Palestinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least three Israelis and wounded several others in a string of attacks in Jerusalem and a Tel Aviv suburb, according to police on a "Day of Rage" declared by Palestinian groups. One of the assailants was killed, an ambulance service spokesman said, and the other captured.
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A wounded passenger is wheeled into an ambulance following a Palestinian shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the east Jerusalem Jewish settlement of Armon Hanatsiv, adjacent to the Palestinian neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber on October 13, 2015.
Two Palestinian attackers opened fire on a bus while another assailant carried out a car-and-knife assault in Jerusalem.
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Palestinian protesters put out a fire burning on a compatriot, caused by a molotov cocktail which he was trying to hurl at Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron, October 13, 2015.
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Odel Bennett lies on a bed as her mother, Miriam Gal, holds Odel's 2-year-old son Natan at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, October 12, 2015.
Bennett has been hospitalized since a Palestinian stabbed her husband Aharon to death on October 3, seriously wounding her and lightly wounding Natan.
A Palestinian woman who stabbed an Israeli man in Jerusalem's Old City several days later was being treated four doors down the hall.
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A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to hurl a stone at Israeli security forces during clashes at the main entrance of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on October 12, 2015.
Frustrated Palestinian youths have defied president Mahmud Abbas as well as an Israeli security crackdown by taking part in violent protests in annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, while 18 stabbings have targeted Jews since October 3.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men (background) stand behind a section of Israel's controversial separation wall as an Israeli soldier makes his way at the main entrance of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on October 12, 2015, during clashes with Palestinian protesters.
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Israeli police officers survey the scene of a stabbing in Jerusalem, October 12, 2015. Palestinians escalated the pace of stabbing attacks in the Jerusalem area and Israeli police shot dead two of the alleged assailants in the worst spell of street violence for years.
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Israeli army soldier detains a Palestinian during clashes in Beit Ommer village north of the West Bank city of Hebron, October 11, 2015.
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Palestinian carry a wounded protestor during clashes with Israeli security forces during clashes over the border fence between Israel and Gaza, October 11, 2015.
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Israeli soldiers aim their weapons at Palestinians during clashes near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 11, 2015.
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The wounded father of three-year-old Palestinian girl Rahaf Hassan who was killed with her mother after their house was brought down by an Israeli air strike, hugs his daughter during her funeral in central Gaza Strip, October 11, 2015.
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Israel policemen run during clashes with Israeli Arabs in Nazareth, northern Israel, October 10, 2015.
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Palestinians carry a wounded protester, shot by Israeli troops, during clashes near the Israeli border fence in northeast Gaza, October 9, 2015.
Israeli troops fired across the border into Gaza, killing four Palestinians and wounding at least a dozen others who were throwing stones during a rally in support of protests in Jerusalem, hospital officials in Gaza said.
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A Palestinian man walks down a flight of stairs as Israeli border police women stand guard at an entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, October 9, 2015.
Israeli police spokesman said October 9 that they will only permit Palestinian men over the age of 45 to enter the Old City.
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Israeli ZAKA emergency response members clean the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem where a Palestinian stabbed a Jewish seminary student, October 8, 2015.
There were two separate stabbing incidents by Palestinians in Jerusalem and another in in Tel Aviv in which an Israeli soldier and four bystanders were stabbed. The assailant in Tel Aviv was killed and the one in Jerusalem was arrested.
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Israeli soldiers detain a wounded Palestinian stone thrower after infiltrated members of the Israeli security forces shot at fellow protesters during clashes in Beit El, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 7, 2015.
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A Palestinian protester uses a sling to hurl stones towards Israeli troops during clashes near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, October 5, 2015.
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Palestinian protesters run away as Israeli police throw a stun grenade in Jerusalem's Old City, September 28, 2015.