A Palestinian youth was shot to death and two others were wounded in an attack on an Israel Defense Force patrol in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, and another Palestinian was killed in a clash with the IDF in Hebron on Saturday.
According to military sources, the shooting Sunday occurred when a band of masked young Palestinians attacked the patrol with knives and axes.
The troops opened fire after the demonstrators failed to obey orders to halt, the spokesman said.
The youth killed Sunday was identified as Yussuf Abdul Karim al-Farah.
And on Friday, at the Ketziot detention camp in Gaza, an Arab was strangled to death by a fellow inmate, apparently because he was suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities.
Meanwhile, a Jerusalem district court imposed a life sentence Friday on Nidal Zaloum, a 25-year-old Arab from Ramallah convicted of murdering two elderly Jews in downtown Jerusalem on May 3.
The victims, 60-year-old Kalman Vardi and 90-year-old Nissim Levy, both lawyers, were stabbed to death at a bus stop opposite the main post office.
Their assailant stabbed three other people before he was overpowered by police.
The court imposed two life sentences for the double murder and three 10-year sentences for attempted murder of the other persons stabbed.
Meanwhile, hopes were raised in Israel that the intifada may ease during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca by the Moslem faithful, which began Sunday.
The first group of 1,400 departed Sunday via the Allenby Bridge into Jordan. The trip by bus takes two days across hot desert terrain. A total of 5,400 are expected to make the pilgrimage this year.
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