Israel army: 3 Palestinians killed after attacking soldiers

The compound is located south of a junction in the West Bank that has been the scene to multiple attacks by Palestinians.

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the two men were dead.

The Israeli army alleged the men had tried to stab soldiers manning the checkpoint, but witnesses said they did not see the pair wielding knives.

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A military spokeswoman, asked about the taxi driver’s account, said the incident was still being reviewed. At the same time, 146 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, most while carrying out attacks.

A wave of violence over the past four months in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem has created a volatile atmosphere among Israelis and Palestinians. That number will rise if authorities deem a January 1 Tel Aviv shooting that killed three people as a pro-Palestinian attack.

Since October 2015, almost 150 Palestinians, including children and women, have been killed in the clashes with Israelis.

The bloodshed has raised fear of wider escalation a decade after the last Palestinian uprising, or intifada, subsided.

Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan with her Hebrew-language novel titled “Gader Haya” (‘Borderlife’) at her house in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.

The U.S. government on Friday criticized Israel’s plan to expand a Jewish settlement on the West Bank, saying it undermines the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The pair were said to have been retaliating for the terrorist murder of Malachi Rosenfeld, 25, gunned down not far from Duma, the village where the fire started by a Molotov cocktail killed Sa’ad Dawabsheh, his wife and their toddler son.