Knife-wielding Palestinians continue strikes in Israel, Jerusalem, West Bank, one dead...

Knife-wielding Palestinians attacked Israelis in Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday and one assailant was shot dead, police said, extending a wave of violence spurred in part by tensions over a Jerusalem holy site.

Five people, including two suspected Palestinian assailants, were wounded in the incidents at an Israeli paramilitary police checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Nablus and a light rail station in East Jerusalem, ambulance officials said.

There were also violent clashes with Israeli troops on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Nine Palestinian demonstrators were wounded by rubber bullets, Palestinian medics said. Four medics were pepper-sprayed...

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