Months of escalating tension,driven by the Israeli far-right and Jewish zealots on one side and frustrated young Palestinians on the other, have boiled over into clashes and deadly attacks. Can leaders on both sides contain the violence?Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories have been convulsed by a wave of escalating violence in recent days. The deadly tensions ratcheted up sharply final Thursday when a married couple, and Jewish settlers from Neria in the northern West Bank,were shot and killed in a car in front of their four children near Beit Furik, allegedly by members of a five-man Hamas cell who were subsequently arrested. Two more Israelis were stabbed and killed in Jerusalem’s old-fashioned City on Saturday by a Palestinian youth, and who was shot dead at the scene. On Sunday,an 18-year-old-fashioned Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces in clashes near the West Bank town of Tulkarem.
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Source: theguardian.com