Israeli military: Palestinian gunman who wounded 3 shot dead

The victim sustained light back injuries and is now in stable condition at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus.

On Monday, a 24-year-old Israeli woman was stabbed to death outside a grocery store in the settlement of Beit Horon, north of Jerusalem. They were treated by Magen David paramedics at the scene before being evacuated to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser). Israeli security forces inspect the body of a Palestinian identified as Amjad Sukkari, at the checkpoint between the city of Ramallah and Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016.

A Palestinian intelligence source said Israeli authorities had informed them that the man, Amjad Abu Muamar, around 30 years old, worked as a bodyguard for the Palestinian attorney general’s office. A soldier who arrived at the scene shot the assailant and killed him.

A wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks erupted in October.

At the same time, 160 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, most while carrying out attacks but others during clashes and demonstrations. Palestinians say it stems from despair over almost 50 years of occupation.

Israel has been accusing the Palestinian National Authority of “inciting” the violence while the Palestinians say it is the result of 49 years of Israeli control of their lands. The Israeli harsh tactics include: settler violence and provocation under full army protection, targeting children, including kidnapping, killing, as well as arresting children as young as five, burning infants alive, the constant use of collective punishment and house demolitions, the use of excessive prison sentences for any act of defiance including throwing rocks, storming revered religious sites, and the deliberate targeting of journalists who dare to challenge Israeli hegemony.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday his country was looking to revive plans for an global conference aimed at bringing about the two-state solution.