Violence spreads to West Bank after Jerusalem bloodshed

Two separate attacks took place in the West Bank on Monday afternoon, hours after Israeli police shot two Palestinians who launched a stabbing attack using scissors in Jerusalem.

In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced new security measures in the West Bank including segregating roads and withdrawing work permits to the families of attackers.

In the first West Bank attack, a Palestinian man was shot dead at Huwwara checkpoint, one of four exit points of the northern town of Nablus, after he allegedly attempted to stab a group of Israeli soldiers.

A witness, bus driver Abu Shaker, told Palestinian news agency Maan that the attacker was shot 10 times by Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint.

Maan also reported that a young woman, named as Samah Abdel Mumin Ahmed, was shot in the head when Israeli fire hit her car close to the checkpoint.

Ahmed was seriously injured, and has been transferred to a local hospital for treatment.

Minutes later a 26-year-old Israeli man was stabbed to death at a petrol station along Route 443, a main highway connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Two Israeli women, an 18-year-old and a 22-year-old, were injured in the same attack, and have been taken to a nearby hospital. 

The alleged attacker was shot dead, Israeli police said on Monday afternoon.

The violence in the West Bank came hours after the first attack to hit Jerusalem in nearly two weeks, when two Palestinians were shot after launching a stabbing attack near a busy market.

One of the alleged attackers, a 16-year-old, was shot dead while the other, 14, was injured.

A 70-year-old Palestinian man, thought to have been mistaken for an Israeli, was injured in the stabbing, which the girls carried out using kitchen scissors.

A video of the attack, and its aftermath, was published on Youtube. 

Netanyahu later announced tighter controls on Palestinian vehicles and an increase in the number of so-called "bypass roads" which create separate routes for Palestinians and Israeli settlers.