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Israeli police special forces patrol a street in Jabel Mukkabir in occupied East Jerusalem on Sept.18, 2015. (AFP/Thomas Coex, File)
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UPDATE Feb 12, 2017

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- An Israeli magistrate court sentenced a Palestinian teenager on Sunday to 12 years in prison over charges of attempting to carry out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem more than a year earlier.

The head of the Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners, Amjad Abu Asab, told Ma’an that Huthaifa Ishaq Taha, a 17-year-old resident of the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab, was sentenced for reportedly attempting to stab an Israeli in Jerusalem in January 2016.
Abu Asab added that Taha was currently held in the Megiddo prison.

According to a Ma’an reporter, Taha was detained for his involvement in a stabbing attempt at a bus station in the illegal settlement of East Talpiyyot on Jan. 3, 2016.

The sentence was the latest to be handed down to young Palestinians, many of whom have been accused of involvement in attacks or attempted attacks in the occupied territory after a wave of political unrest began in October 2015.
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JERUSALEM (Ma’an) Jan 3, 2016 -- A Palestinian was detained Sunday after reportedly attempting to stab an Israeli in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli police said.

Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri said in a statement that a “young Arab terrorist attacked an Israeli civilian while standing at a bus station.”

The bus station was located on Barzani street in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood which borders the Palestinian Jabal al-Mukkbir neighborhood. The suspect attempted to stab the Israeli and fled the scene before being detained by Israeli police and taken for questioning, al-Samri said.

No injuries were reported in the incident.

Shortly before, an Israeli settler was shot by a suspected Palestinian gunmen outside of the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron before fleeing the scene.

Several attacks have been carried out by individual Palestinians on Israeli military and civilians since a wave of unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory in October.

One Israeli was killed last month after being stabbed in an attack carried out near Jerusalem’s Old City by two Palestinians from the Qalandiya refugee camp.

A second Israeli was killed during the attack after being shot by Israeli border police who opened fire on the attackers.

Following attacks that initially began to increase in Jerusalem in October, Israeli authorities implemented additional security around public transportation in the occupied city, while sealing off Palestinian areas.
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by Gili Cohen for Haaretz

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Shortly after the Hebron attack, an attempted stabbing attack was reported in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood. According to the police, a suspected assailant attacked a man with a knife at a bus stop, but failed to cause him any injuries. The attacker fled, and later a suspect was arrested in the vicinity.  

The attack came two days after two Israelis were killed and seven were wounded in a shooting at a bar in central Tel Aviv.

This is the second attack in the West Bank since Thursday, when an Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly wounded in a car-ramming attack.

Last Wednesday, an Israeli maintenance worker at the Tomb of the Patriarchs succumbed to wounds sustained in a Hebron stabbing attack that occurred earlier that month.
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