Three Palestinians, including attackers, shot dead; Israeli stabbed to death

A Palestinian stabbed and killed an Israeli at a petrol station in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Nov. 23 and in Jerusalem two Palestinian girls attacked and slightly wounded an elderly man with scissors before a policeman shot them both, killing one.

In a day of rapidly unfolding violence, the latest in an eight-week surge of stabbings, shootings and car rammings, a Palestinian was also shot dead near the West Bank city of Nablus after approaching soldiers with a knife, the military said. 

The Palestinian health ministry said the shot Palestinian was 16. It said an 18-year-old Palestinian woman was critically wounded in the incident, but had no further details. 

The attack in Jerusalem occurred on Jaffa Road, a busy downtown street near the market. Two Palestinian girls, one aged 14 and the other 16, used scissors to stab and slightly wound a 70-year-old man, who turned out to be Palestinian, not Israeli. 

Video on YNet, a popular Israeli news website, seemed certain to raise questions over whether a passing policeman used excessive force to subdue the teenagers after the attack. 

At the petrol station in the West Bank, on the side of a road regularly used by Israelis to drive between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, a Palestinian stabbed two Israelis, killing one of them, before he was shot dead by soldiers. 

Gunfire from the troops hit a passing car, slightly injuring its Israeli driver. 

The incidents occurred a day before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was due to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories to discuss ways to try to stem the violence. 

Eighty-six Palestinians have been killed in the spate of violence since Oct. 1, some while carrying out attacks and others in clashes with...