Palestinian Shot Dead After Stabbing Israeli Policemen In Jerusalem

Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian man on Friday after he stabbed two police officers outside Jerusalem's walled Old City, police said. Since October, stabbings, shootings and car rammings by Palestinians have killed 28 Israelis and a U.S. citizen. Many Palestinian attackers have been teenagers. The bloodshed has raised concern of wider escalation a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided. Briefing the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. envoy on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, said he was concerned the bloodshed may be entering "a new troubling phase". He called on both Israeli and Palestinian leaders to provide "a political horizon to their people" and reject incitement by extremists in their own camps.