Israeli security forces have shot dead two Palestinians youths during clashes close to the border with the Gaza Strip.
Medical officials said the youths, aged 12 and 15, were killed near Khan Younis.
Earlier,
there were two stabbing attacks by Palestinians in Jerusalem, with
Israeli police shooting the attackers dead, Israeli officials said.
The past week has seen a spate of violence.
An
Israeli army spokeswoman said the boy and teenager killed near Khan
Younis were in a no-go security zone as protesters were hurling burning
tyres and stones at soldiers.
There were also protests along the
border fence in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli officials said five
people were arrested after dozens of Palestinians briefly breached the
border.
In Jerusalem, two policemen were stabbed near Damascus
gate on Saturday afternoon. A teenager stabbed two Israelis nearby
earlier in the day. Image copyrightAFPImage caption
Israeli security forces were on alert as Jerusalem saw two new stabbing attacks
There were also clashes on Saturday after the
funeral of a Palestinian man who had been shot during unrest at the
Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem and later died of his injuries.
The
heightened tension between Israelis and Palestinians began in
mid-September when Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli police at
the al-Aqsa mosque/Temple Mount compound, a site sacred for both
Muslims and Jews.
Saturday's stabbings were the latest in a wave
of attacks by young Palestinians on Israelis that have fuelled tension
in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israel has responded with tougher
security measures.
Image copyrightAFPImage caption
Funerals were held on Saturday for Palestinians killed in Friday's violence
The violence has spurred talk from Hamas, which dominates Gaza, of a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
But the clashes have not yet reached the scale of previous intifadas, with no clear mass movement or leadership so far emerging.
Police
said Saturday's first stabbing had been carried out by a 16-year-old
Palestinian. Two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in their 60s were wounded,
police and medics said.
Later, another Palestinian stabbed two
police officers just outside the Old City, police spokesman Micky
Rosenfeld said. Police opened fire and killed the assailant, but also
wounded one of their colleagues, he said.
Friday was the deadliest day since the recent violence erupted.
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