Israel Knife Attacks

Eight Syrian fighters working with Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed Tuesday in a knife attack on their position in eastern Syria's Deir Ezzor province, a war monitor said.

A man stabbed and wounded three people in an knife attack Sunday in a shopping mall near the Israeli town of Ashdod, emergency services said.

A man wielding a knife stabbed several people and ran over another in southern Israel on Tuesday, killing four, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in recent years.

Israeli security forces shot dead a teenage assailant who stabbed and wounded two police officers in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, Israeli police said.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned a Palestinian knife attack in a West Bank settlement that claimed the lives of three members of an Israeli family.

Israeli paramilitary police officers shot and killed a Palestinian woman who tried to attack them with a knife outside Jerusalem's walled Old City on Wednesday, police spokesmen said.

An assailant armed with a knife tried to attack the Israeli embassy in Turkey on Wednesday but was shot before he reached the building, Israel's foreign ministry said.

A Palestinian tried to stab Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank today before being shot dead, the army said, the latest in a months-long wave of violence.

An Israeli man has died of wounds sustained in an early December stabbing in the West Bank city of Hebron.

A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier with a kitchen knife in Jerusalem today, wounding him moderately before he was arrested, police said.

Young Palestinians with kitchen knives are waging a ceaseless campaign of near-suicidal violence that Israeli leaders are calling "a new kind of terrorism." Four attacks occurred in the past 48 hours alone - two stabbings and two vehicular assaults.

Internet giant Google on Monday denied a report from Israel's foreign ministry that it has reached an agreement with the government to jointly monitor YouTube videos inciting attacks.

Stabbings at an entrance to Jerusalem's Old City and near a bus stop Sunday left two people wounded and an attacker killed, while Israel closed a third Palestinian radio station accused of incitement.

US Secretary of State John Kerry began a one-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories today by describing a wave of Palestinian knife and car ramming attacks as terrorism that must be condemned.

A stabbing attack in Tel Aviv killed two people on Thursday, while the Palestinian assailant was injured and arrested, Israeli police said, in the first such incident in several days.

Eight Syrian fighters working with Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed Tuesday in a knife attack on their position in eastern Syria's Deir Ezzor province, a war monitor said.

A man stabbed and wounded three people in an knife attack Sunday in a shopping mall near the Israeli town of Ashdod, emergency services said.

A man wielding a knife stabbed several people and ran over another in southern Israel on Tuesday, killing four, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in recent years.

Israeli security forces shot dead a teenage assailant who stabbed and wounded two police officers in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, Israeli police said.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned a Palestinian knife attack in a West Bank settlement that claimed the lives of three members of an Israeli family.

Israeli paramilitary police officers shot and killed a Palestinian woman who tried to attack them with a knife outside Jerusalem's walled Old City on Wednesday, police spokesmen said.

An assailant armed with a knife tried to attack the Israeli embassy in Turkey on Wednesday but was shot before he reached the building, Israel's foreign ministry said.

A Palestinian tried to stab Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank today before being shot dead, the army said, the latest in a months-long wave of violence.

An Israeli man has died of wounds sustained in an early December stabbing in the West Bank city of Hebron.

A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier with a kitchen knife in Jerusalem today, wounding him moderately before he was arrested, police said.

Young Palestinians with kitchen knives are waging a ceaseless campaign of near-suicidal violence that Israeli leaders are calling "a new kind of terrorism." Four attacks occurred in the past 48 hours alone - two stabbings and two vehicular assaults.

Internet giant Google on Monday denied a report from Israel's foreign ministry that it has reached an agreement with the government to jointly monitor YouTube videos inciting attacks.

Stabbings at an entrance to Jerusalem's Old City and near a bus stop Sunday left two people wounded and an attacker killed, while Israel closed a third Palestinian radio station accused of incitement.

US Secretary of State John Kerry began a one-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories today by describing a wave of Palestinian knife and car ramming attacks as terrorism that must be condemned.

A stabbing attack in Tel Aviv killed two people on Thursday, while the Palestinian assailant was injured and arrested, Israeli police said, in the first such incident in several days.