Palestinian terrorism

Israeli troops arrested one of the top West Bank leaders of Islamist group Hamas in an overnight raid near Ramallah, the army said on Oct. 20. 

An Eritrean migrant, shot by a security guard and kicked by an angry Israeli crowd that mistook him for a gunman, was identified on Oct. 19 as one of the dead from an attack on a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba. 

Israel was to voice its opposition Oct. 19 to French proposals to send international observers to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the latest in a diplomatic push to quell fears over a full-blown Palestinian uprising.

Palestinians set fire to a Jewish shrine in the West Bank on Oct. 16 as the Islamist group Hamas called for a day of rage against Israel, with tensions still running high after two weeks of violence.

The United Nations Security Council will hold a special meeting on Oct. 16 to discuss the recent spate of violence between Israel and the Palestinians in which 39 people have been killed over the past two weeks. 

Israel bristled Oct. 15 at U.S. suggestions it may have used excessive force to confront Palestinian stabbings, and also published hospital images it said refuted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas?s allegation a teen suspect had been ?executed.? 

Israel started setting up roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem and deploying soldiers in cities across the country on Oct. 14 to try to combat the worst surge of violence in months.

Palestinian officials condemned the security measures - the most serious clampdown in the Jerusalem area since a Palestinian uprising a decade ago - as collective punishment. 

Palestinians celebrated the spate of stabbing attacks in separate assaults near Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with a series of cartoons taht appeared on social media. Seven Israelis and 27 Palestinians have died over the last two weeks, reports Reuters. Meanwhile, Palestinians are using cartoons with various perspectives and special references to the Intifada (or uprising).

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Two people have been killed and dozens wounded in four bus attacks in Israel, local media report.

The incidents took place in Jerusalem and Ra'anana in the northwest of the country.

Some world news services, such as the BBC, report the death toll has risen to three.

The number of wounded people also ranges between 16 and more than 20, according to different sources.