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Terror Continues in Israel Despite Increased Security

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JERUSALEM, Israel – Terror attacks continued in Jerusalem on Monday. By mid-afternoon there had been two stabbing attacks. At the Lion's Gate in the Old City an Arab attempted to stab police. He was shot and killed.

In the afternoon, a female terrorist was shot after she tried to stab someone near the city's police headquarters and a short time later there was another stabbing attack on a bus in an outlying neighborhood – possibly with serious injuries.

Jerusalem schools opened on schedule after it was agreed to put additional security in place.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told cabinet ministers on Sunday that Israel is in the midst of a wave of terror "originating from systematic and mendacious incitement regarding the Temple Mount." 

Netanyahu charged Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the Islamic Movement in Israel with that incitement and said he would not tolerate what he called "internal incitement."

Over the weekend, Arab-Israeli Knesset member Hanin Zoabi was quoted in Hamas' official journal al-Risala calling for Palestinians to rise up in mass and attack Israeli security services.

"Hundreds of thousands of worshipers should go up to al-Aqsa [mosque on the Temple Mount] in order to face down an Israeli plot for the blood of East Jerusalem residents," Netanyahu quoted Zoabi telling the Hamas publication.

"Today there are actions only by individuals and what is needed is popular support. If only individual attacks continue without popular support, they will sputter out within a few days. Therefore the outpouring of thousands of our people will make these events a real intifada [uprising]," Zoabi was quoted as saying.

Netanyahu said he had instructed Israel's attorney general to open a criminal investigation against Zoabi for inciting Palestinians to rise up in mass and attack Israeli security services.

The prime minister also mobilized 16 border police reserve units over the weekend to squelch terror in the country.

"It is better to mobilize massive forces to deal with possible developments, rather than do so after the fact, and we will call up more forces as necessary," Netanyahu said.

On Sunday evening in northern Israel, an Arab-Israeli rammed his car into pedestrians and then got out and started stabbing them. Four people were wounded and the terrorist captured. 

Earlier in the day outside Jerusalem, a female terrorist set off a car bomb by the side of the road, burning one policeman and seriously injuring herself.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "heightened security continues in Jerusalem, with emphasis in the old city in order to prevent further attacks from taking place."

On Saturday, five Israelis were wounded (one by friendly fire) during two stabbing attacks outside the Damascus gate of the Jerusalem's Old City. Both attackers were shot dead.

Meanwhile, terrorists launched rockets at Ashkelon prompting an Israeli airstrike on two Hamas weapons manufacturing site in Gaza. The explosion collapsed a nearby building killing a Gazan woman and her daughter. 

And Palestinians in Gaza opened a new front storming the border fence. A number of Palestinian youth were killed in those confrontations with Israeli troops. And clashes continued in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), too.

At least 24 Palestinians and five Israelis have died since the unrest began last month.

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