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Two Palestinians shot dead in east Jerusalem
17 October 2015 13:07 BST
Israeli soldiers and a settler shot dead two Palestinians who tried to stab Jews in separate incidents in annexed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the army and police said.
In the first attack at just before 0600 GMT, 18-year-old Fadel al Qawasmeh tried to stab an Israeli settler in the centre of the West Bank city of Hebron.
The settler responded by opening fire on andk killing Qawasmeh the army said, adding that the Palestinian had tried but failed to wound the Jewish man.
Minutes later in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, a second Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces when he tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint, police said.
He has yet to be identified.