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Palestinian killed in blast at Gaza crossing
Palestinian man killed and two others injured in blast at a crossing in southern Gaza, medics say
On the streets of the battered, Hamas-run Palestinian enclave, people headed to shops and banks, trying to resume the normal pace of life after seven weeks of fighting
Unrest in the Middle-East continued to spread after a spate of killings accross Israel and the occupied territories.
One Palestinian was killed and two others injured Tuesday when a blast hit a fuel truck at a crossing in southern Gaza, medics said.
Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said a 20-year-old man had been killed in the explosion which took place on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing.
Officials were not immediately able to say whether it was the result of an accident or a deliberate attack.
Elsewhere, an Israeli soldier and a woman have been killed, and two others injured in separate stabbing incidents in Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank, Israeli police have said.
Monday's incidents came amid a wave of unrest in parts of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories following the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli soldiers last Wednesday.
The violence began in Tel Aviv where a Palestinian teenager from the northern West Bank stabbed a 20-year-old soldier, leaving him in critical condition. The soldier died of his wounds in hospital late on Monday night.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, said officers had arrested the Tel Aviv attacker, who stabbed the soldier several times, adding that he was from the town of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
"He is currently under interrogation," Rosenfeld said.
In the second attack, a Palestinian man stabbed three Israelis at the entrance of the Alon Shvut settlement in the West Bank on Monday evening, Israeli police said, adding that the attacker was then shot by the guard.
A 25-year-old Israeli woman died in the incident and the other two victims have been hospitalised for minor injuries.
Ongoing unrest has been triggered by Muslim fears of Jewish encroachment at the sacred site where the Al-Aqsa mosque stands, a hilltop plateau known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
The fatal shooting of an Israeli Arab by a policeman on Saturday in the Israeli Arab town of Kfar Kana gave a new impetus to the tensions, after the release of a video that appeared to show the man backing away from police when he was shot.
Since Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1967, Jewish worshippers have been allowed to visit, but not pray, at Haram al-Sharif.
On Saturday, a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians in central Jerusalem, killing two Israelis. Police shot the driver dead.
