Story highlights
- The victim, a member of the Israel Defense Forces, is in serious condition, police say
- Police call the stabbing a terrorist attack by a Palestinian
- Palestinian party Fatah cancels memorial for former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
- Fatah blames rival Hamas, saying it's been bombing Fatah leaders' homes
(CNN)First, a 20-year-old Israeli was stabbed Monday at a bus stop in Tel Aviv. Then, three Israelis were stabbed at a hitchhiking post near the entrance to a settlement in the West Bank, police said.
One of the three, a 24-year-old woman, was killed, emergency services said.
In both incidents, the attackers were "terrorists," police said. The incidents came amid simmering tensions -- not just between Israel and Palestinians, but between rival Palestinian factions as well.
"The atmosphere of violence rides the wave of Palestinian incitement," Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said on Twitter.
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After the Tel Aviv stabbing, a Palestinian suspect from Nablus in the West Bank was arrested "with the help of eyewitnesses while he was hiding in an apartment building in the fourth floor nearby the central bus station," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
The victim, a member of the Israel Defense Forces, was taken to a hospital in serious condition, police said.
After the stabbings at the Alon Shvut junction in the West Bank, the attacker was shot by a security guard, police said.
The junction is the same site where three Israeli teens were kidnapped and later found dead, ultimately sparking an Israeli military campaign targeting Hamas in Gaza called Operation Protective Edge.
Fatah accuses Hamas of bombings
The incidents Monday -- the latest in a string of attacks -- came amid a new round of infighting between Palestinian factions.
The political party Fatah said Sunday it will scrap a series of events to commemorate the death 10 years ago of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The group blamed rival faction Hamas, saying it is behind a series of bombings at the homes of Fatah leaders.
Hamas denounced the attacks, according to the Facebook page of spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.
Fatah controls the West Bank, and Hamas controls Gaza. While the parties have fought violent battles in the past, they've made repeated announcements of plans to form a unity government as well.
The 'auto intifada'
On Saturday, Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man who attacked police officers with a knife in a village in northern Israel, police said. There were conflicting accounts of exactly what happened.
Israel has been facing what some call an "auto intifada" -- a spate of attacks on Jewish civilians in Jerusalem by Palestinians driving vehicles.
Hamas said it "blesses the action. What is happening in Jerusalem is pushing us to prepare for war."
Violence has recently involved the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism and one of the three holiest sites in Islam. It's known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary, and Jews are allowed to visit the site but not to pray there.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – A Palestinian man argues with Israeli police officers as he waits to get permission to enter the Temple Mount on Wednesday, November 5, in Jerusalem. Police clashed with Palestinians there on Wednesday, leaving more than 15 people injured in the latest round of unrest at the holy site.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – An Israeli soldier aims tear gas during clashes with Palestinian protesters following a rally Sunday, November 2, at a checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah. Tension in Jerusalem is perhaps at its greatest since the end of the second intifada, or Palestinian uprising, 10 years ago -- stoked by a rash of what some call hate crimes and others acts of terror.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – Right-wing Israelis are stopped by Israeli policemen as they try to access the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, part of the Temple Mount, on November 2. The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest site in Islam.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – Israeli border police block a road in Jerusalem as Muslims pray Friday, October 31. A day after taking the rare step of closing the Temple Mount, Israel partially reopened access for Muslim prayers Friday. But midday access was granted only to men over 50 and women. Israeli police said this was meant to prevent demonstrations by young Muslim men following the recent shootings of a controversial rabbi and a Palestinian suspect in the rabbi's shooting.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – Israelis walk at the Jewish quarter in the Old City overlooking the Temple Mount on October 31.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – Israeli police detain activist Noam Federman after he tried to enter the Temple Mount on Thursday, October 30. The closing of the holy site -- the first in more than a decade -- infuriated Palestinians, with a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas calling it a "declaration of war."
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Tensions at Temple Mount – A van burns in Jerusalem during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces on October 30.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – Israeli police scuffle with activists trying to enter the Temple Mount on October 30.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – Israeli police patrol Jerusalem during clashes on October 30.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – Palestinians throw stones in the streets of Jerusalem on October 30.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – Israeli police surround the Jerusalem home of Mu'taz Ihjazi on October 30. Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said Ihjazi, a Palestinian suspect in the shooting of Rabbi Yehuda Glick, was shot and killed after he opened fire on police. Glick, an advocate of Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount, was shot after he gave a presentation in Jerusalem on Wednesday, October 29.
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Tensions at Temple Mount – Israeli demonstrators wave flags outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, where Glick was shot in Jerusalem on October 29.
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A Palestinian recently shot and critically wounded a rabbi, Yehuda Glick, who campaigns for the right of Jews to pray at the site. After an Israeli counterterrorism unit shot and killed the assailant hours later, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas -- part of Fatah in the West Bank -- wrote to the assailant's family saying he would "go to heaven as a martyr defending the rights of our people and its holy places."
