Sharjah24 - AFP: Two Palestinians were shot dead and another was wounded in separate incidents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem on Sunday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence.
The unrest came hours after the arrest of two Palestinians suspected of axing three Israelis to death, and as a series of anti-Israeli attacks and bloody violence has left dozens dead since late March, among them Palestinian and Arab-Israeli perpetrators.
In the southern West Bank, a Palestinian armed with a knife infiltrated the Tekoa settlement before being shot by a resident, the army said.
"Soldiers were dispatched to the scene and are searching the area for additional suspects," a statement from the military said.
The Palestinian health ministry said Motasem Attalah, 17, was killed.
A short time earlier, a 19-year-old Palestinian without an entry permit for Israel stabbed a police officer outside the Old City in east Jerusalem before being shot and "neutralised" by forces at the scene, a police statement said.
The officer was taken to hospital in moderate condition, police said, with medics saying the stabber was not dead.
Earlier Sunday, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who tried to enter Israel through the Jewish state's barrier in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Soldiers "identified a (person) trying to cross the security barrier" near Tulkarem, an army statement said. "The force shot at him in accordance with procedures. The suspect was taken for medical care."
A spokesman for the Sheba hospital in central Israel told AFP the Palestinian had died of his wounds, with the Palestinian health ministry identifying the deceased as Mahmud Eram.
Security forces had earlier arrested two Palestinians suspected of carrying out an axe attack in central Israel on Thursday that left three dead.
The security services -- who previously identified the suspects as Assad Yussef al-Rifai, 19, and Subhi Imad Abu Shukair, 20 -- said the pair were spotted hiding in a bush near a quarry, just outside the central town of Elad, where the attack took place.
The perpetrators had entered Israel through the porous barrier with the West Bank, an Israeli military official said earlier, calling their infiltration a "failure" of the army.
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