2 Arabs Killed in Incidents Related to Temple Mount

A security agent shot to death a Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli guard in the West Bank today, and an Arab died in a failed bombing near Tel Aviv. Both deaths came in apparent revenge attacks for the Temple Mount killings.

A third attack occurred in Arab East Jerusalem, where a Palestinian stabbed a police officer. The victim suffered superficial neck wounds, and the assailant was arrested, police and Israel army radio said.

The attacks were the latest in violence set off by the police response to the Oct. 8 riots on the sacred Temple Mount. Twenty Palestinians were killed by police who opened fire on Arabs who had pelted Jewish worshipers with rocks. Since then, five people have been killed and 11 wounded in a series of revenge attacks by Arabs and Israelis.

Army radio said the security guard was stabbed three times in the back as he stood on the street in the West Bank town of Nablus. A plainclothes Israeli security officer who was passing shot the attacker to death, it said. The guard suffered moderate wounds.

In the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak, meanwhile, a bomb exploded in a vegetable store, killing one Arab and wounding two as they tried to assemble the device, police said.