Two Palestinians allegedly tried to stab the Israeli police at a West Bank checkpoint on Friday, one of whom was shot dead while the other was wounded by Israeli fire, the police said.
Two Palestinians allegedly tried to stab the Israeli police at a West Bank checkpoint on Friday, one of whom was shot dead while the other was wounded by Israeli fire, the police said.
“Both terrorists arrived in area on motorbike armed with knives,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Twitter, adding that one of them was shot dead and the other shot and captured.
The latest such attack took place at a checkpoint leading into the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank which has become the focal point of a surge in violence that first began in Jerusalem in September.
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas will meet Friday with the prosecutor of the world’s only permanent war crimes court, Palestinian officials said amid a surge of fresh violence with Israel.
It will be Mr Abbas’s first meeting with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court since the Palestinian Authority sparked controversy by joining the tribunal in January, an official with the Palestinian mission in The Hague said.
The visit comes as Israel and the Palestinians grapple with another wave of deadly violence amid fears that almost daily clashes and knife attacks could herald a third Palestinian uprising, or intifada.
Mr Abbas, who is in the Netherlands as part of a European tour, would visit ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda “in the context of the grave Israeli escalation in occupied Palestine,” the official said, asking not to be identified.
There was no immediate confirmation from the ICC that Mr Bensouda was meeting with Mr Abbas.To Israel’s fury, the Palestinians have formally asked the ICC to investigate the Jewish state for alleged war crimes during the 2014 Gaza war in which 2,200 Palestinians were killed.
