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JERUSALEM, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Israeli security forces said they shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the West Bank after she tried to stab police officers near a military checkpoint on Friday morning.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said that the woman, armed with a knife, approached a Border Police post near Ibrahimi Mosque, a site holy to both Muslims and Jews, who revere it as the "Cave of the Patriarchs."
According to Samri, the suspect attempted to carry out a stabbing attack before one of the officers "identified her, shot at her and neutralized her."
Israeli authorities announced her death later. Her name was not disclosed.
No Israeli officers were injured in the incident, Samri said.
In Jerusalem, police were on high alert with hundreds of officers deployed throughout the city for fear of clashes due to the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of the Ramadan.
Tensions were running high after two Palestinian attacks on Thursday, including a knife attack in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, in which a 13-year-old girl was killed in her bed.
The attacker was shot dead after he stabbed another civilian on the settlement's security patrol, who rushed to help the girl.
In the evening, a Palestinian from Tulkarem stabbed and wounded two Israeli in the market of Netanya, a city north of Tel Aviv. He was shot and killed by a civilian passerby.
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to "always fight the terrorists." Speaking at the 4th of July event at the U.S. Ambassador Residence, Netanyahu said Israel will hunt down the attackers and those who incite and sponsor the violence.
A military spokesperson said on Friday night that the army marked overnight the home of the Kiryat Arba killer, ahead of its planned demolishing.
The spokesperson also said that ten Palestinian "suspects" were arrested overnight. One is suspected of participating in clashes with soldiers and the others are allegedly members of the Islamist movement of Hamas.
At least 211 Palestinians and 33 Israelis, two U.S. nationals, an Eritrean asylum seeker, and a Sudanese asylum seeker, have been killed since the start of the Palestinian unrest in mid-September.
