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JERUSALEM/GAZA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Israeli soldiers and a settler shot and killed two Palestinians who allegedly attempted to stab Jews in east Jerusalem and the West Bank on Saturday morning, officials said.
In the first attack, an Israeli settler shot dead a Palestinian youth Saturday morning in the West Bank city of Hebron after the teen allegedly attempted to stab him with a knife.
Palestinian Ma'an news identified the assailant as 18-year-old Fadel al-Kawatsmi and confirmed his death.
The Palestinian governor of Hebron province said that the young man's body is still held by the Israeli army.
The city of Hebron harbored some 500 Israeli settlers who live under army protection but are surrounded by nearly 200,000 Palestinians.
Half an hour later, a second Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli police in the Armon HaNatziv neighborhood of the annexed east Jerusalem, police said.
The 16-year-old Palestinian pulled out a knife at Border Police officers after they asked him to present his ID card.
The incidents, coming amid a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence, followed a day of heavy clashes in the West Bank and Gaza, in which at least two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and 211 others were injured.
According to the Palestinian health ministry, since early October, the Israeli army and Jewish settlers have killed 39 Palestinians, including 25 from the West Bank and 14 from the Gaza Strip, while more than 1,500 were injured.
