Sudanese migrant stabs Israeli soldier, is shot dead

“The behaviour, the location, the flight, the targeting of a soldier – all of these add up to a nationalistic attack”, Ashkelon police chief Shimon Portal told reporters, using a term Israelis often apply to Palestinian violence.

Three men from Qabatiya, near Jenin, on Wednesday attacked police with guns and knives outside Jerusalem’s Old City, killing a female officer and wounding another before being shot dead.

At first it was announced that the assailant was Palestinian.

The Palestinian healthy ministry confirmed the deaths of the three Palestinian men.

Israel’s controversial policy of demolishing Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank has also been criticized by the United Nations, civil society groups and human rights organizations.

“I expect the worldwide community to condemn the desecration of a synagogue, an act that is the result of incessant Palestinian incitement”.

Protests against Israel’s ongoing occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, have become increasingly violent in recent months.

Thousands of Palestinians on Friday turned out to honor three Palestinian terrorists who murdered an Israeli policewoman earlier in the week. Some 155 Palestinians, the majority of whom Israel says were attackers, were killed by Israeli fire during that time.

On Thursday, Israeli forces demolished five tents, three barns and an outside toilet in the village of Tammun, north-east West Bank, which it said had been built without permits, Ynet news site reported.

The wave of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings carried out by Palestinians has killed 27 Israelis and a US citizen since October.