Week4 - Israel Gaza conflict

2 killed, 2 wounded in stabbing attacks on Israelis

By Josh Levs and Nic Robertson, CNN

November 10, 2014 -- Updated 2133 GMT (0533 HKT)

(CNN) -- First, a 20-year-old Israeli soldier was stabbed Monday 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. The soldier stabbed earlier also died of his wounds, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

In both incidents, the attackers were "terrorists," police said.

"The atmosphere of violence rides the wave of Palestinian incitement," Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said on Twitter.

The incidents came amid simmering tensions -- not just between Israel and Palestinians, but also between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas. Fatah controls the West Bank, while Hamas controls Gaza.

After the Tel Aviv stabbing, an 18-year-old 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.

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.

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. The man killed was identified as Khair Hamdan. There were conflicting accounts of exactly what happened.

"These are difficult days," Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said about the stabbing Monday.

"I call on all elected officials, all our leaders, from all across the political spectrum, to stand united before the State of Israel. I place my trust in the security forces, that they will not rest until they return normality to our daily lives," he said.

Israel has faced stabbings from Palestinian terrorists before.

Last decade, Palestinian bus bombings and suicide attacks terrorized the country. The construction of the West Bank barrier has helped stave off some would-be bombers, while cutting off access to Jerusalem for many Palestinians.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/10/world/meast/mideast-violence/index.html?iref=allsearch

Structure of the Lead: 

who - three Israelis

when - Monday

what - were stabbed at a hitchhiking post

why - not given

where - near the entrance to a settlement in the West Bank

how - not given

Keywords:

hitchhiking 搭便車（旅行）

incitement 激勵；刺激；煽動

spectrum 光譜

Jerusalem 耶路撒冷

Palestinian 巴勒斯坦人（或居民）