DHAKA: Two Israelis have been killed and two others injured in a knife attack by a Palestinian in Jerusalem.

Police say, reports the BBC.

The victims are said to be from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family who were walking to the Western Wall. The attacker was shot dead by police.

In a separate stabbing incident hours later, a Palestinian wounded an Israeli teenager and was also later killed by police in Jerusalem.

It comes two days after an Israeli couple was shot dead in the West Bank.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to hold an emergency meeting with Israeli security officials later on Sunday to discuss growing violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

The first stabbing incident took place just after the end of the Jewish Sabbath close to Lion's Gate in the Old City. The victims were said to have been passing near the entrance of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, en route to the Western Wall.

Jerusalem police chief Moshe Edri said a Palestinian man had ‘stabbed an Israeli man, his wife and the toddler’ several times in an alleyway before stabbing another man.

Both Israeli men had died of their wounds, he said, adding that the mother and the child had suffered serious wounds.

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