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Man Killed by Israeli Police After Stabbing Soldier

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Israeli police said on Monday an officer shot and killed a man who stabbed an Israeli soldier with a knife on a bus in order to seize his gun.

TEL AVIV (Sputnik) — The attack took place in the bus at the entrance to Jerusalem.

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Two Stabbing Incidents in One Hour Injure Three in Jerusalem

"Police eliminated a terrorist who tried to seize a weapon from a soldier, slightly injuring him," the police press service said in a statement.

Earlier in the day, two teenage Palestinians attacked and injured an Israeli man before stabbing an Israeli teenager riding a bicycle, severely wounding him. One of the attackers was shot dead by police while the other was wounded and taken to a hospital.

An Israeli Merkava tank rolls back from the Gaza Strip to an army deployment near Israel's border with the Palestinian enclave on August 3, 2014 - Sputnik International
Israel-Palestine Violence Can Only De-Escalate if ‘Parties Start Talks’

Since the beginning of October, over 20 Palestinians and four Israeli nationals have been killed in clashes.

The core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essentially a struggle over land and diplomatic identity. Palestinians seek to create a diplomatically recognized independent state on the territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, according to the frontiers that were in existence before the 1967 Six-Day War.

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