(MENAFN- The Peninsula) An Israeli woman and a soldier were killed in Palestinian knife attacks in the West Bank and Tel Aviv yesterday, extending a surge in violence fuelled by strife over access to Jerusalem's holiest site.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to crush "terror being directed at all parts of the country" - remarks appearing to clash with Israeli security chiefs' assertions that the tumult did not yet spell a new Intifada, or Palestinian revolt.
The first incident, the soldier's stabbing at a Tel Aviv train station, brought bloodshed to the Israeli commercial capital. Police identified the suspected assailant, who was arrested, as a resident of the occupied West Bank who was in Israel illegally and had not previously been arrested.
Hours later, a Palestinian stormed out of a car to stab three people outside the Jewish settlement of Alon Shvut in the West Bank, killing the woman and wounding two other people, police said. The attacker was shot and wounded by a guard.
The Islamic Jihad claimed him as its member and an Israeli security official said he had been jailed in Israel between 2000 and 2005 for a petrol bomb attack.
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