Secretary of State John Kerry said he will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas this week as a wave of deadly violence intensified Sunday across Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Kerry, speaking in Paris, said he will meet with Netanyahu in Germany and then with Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah in Jordan. Hours later, three people died and several were wounded in an attack at the central bus station in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba.
The attacker killed an Israeli soldier and took his semiautomatic assault rifle, firing it into a group of police officers and others, the Israeli news website Arutz Sheva said, citing police. The shooter was killed; another man also was shot and killed by officers, although police later said he may not have been involved in the attack, the website said.
The slain soldier was identified as 19-year-old Omri Levy, a corporal in the Israeli Defense Forces.
About 40 Palestinians and nine Israelis have died in the month-long surge in violence. Many Israelis have been victims of knife attacks.
The latest attack came as 300 soldiers were deployed Sunday to help police patrol public transportation stations, buses and major traffic arteries in Jerusalem. Other recent security measures include concrete barriers separating Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and random checkpoints near some Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
The leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, on Sunday called the unrest a “renewed intifada," or uprising, carried out by a new generation of Palestinians who believe in resistance.
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