Attacks have continued in parts of Jerusalem only hours after Israeli forces launched a major security operation in Arab areas of the city.
On Wednesday morning police blocked entrances to Jabal Mukaber, a district that was home to three men accused of killing three Israelis on Tuesday.
Later police said they shot dead a Palestinian who had stabbed an Israeli woman at Jerusalem’s main bus station.
Another Palestinian tried to stab a policeman near the walled Old City.
He too was shot dead by police, they added.
Since the beginning of October, seven Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in shooting and stabbing attacks, the Israeli authorities say.
At least 30 Palestinians have also been killed, including assailants, and hundreds have been injured, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
In other developments:
*The White House and state department confirmed that Secretary of State John Kerry would travel to the region soon, without giving more details
*In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Kirby tried to downplay comments made by Kerry indicating he believed Israel’s settlements policy was to blame for the violence
Speaking for the first time since the upsurge in violence began, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli actions were “threatening to spark a religious conflict that would burn everything”.
He also accused Israel of carrying out “executions of our children in cold blood”, highlighting the case of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot by Israeli police after he and a 15-year-old stabbed an Israeli on Monday, reports the BBC.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the Palestinian leader’s comments as “lies and incitement”, adding that the boy was alive in hospital, the Jerusalem Post reports.
He said on Tuesday the new security measures were aimed at “those who try murder and with all those who assist them”.
