Terrorist attacks in Jerusalem doubled last month compared with August, according to the Shin Bet, Israel’s security agency.
There were 26 attacks in the capital in September, compared with 13 in August, the Shin Bet wrote in its monthly report for September published this week. The number of attacks perpetrated against Israelis in the West Bank remained unchanged at 78.
Throughout Israel, the total number of attacks against Israelis in September rose to 109, constituting a 17 percent increase over the 93 attacks recorded in August. The August figure was the lowest monthly tally recorded since March 2015 and the first dip since then below the 100-incident mark.
Ten Israelis were wounded in the September attacks, compared to seven in August. September saw no Israeli fatalities from attacks.
More than half of the attacks in September involved the hurling of firebombs.
Despite the increase in attacks in Jerusalem, the September tally was 47 percent lower than the average monthly figure over the previous 12 months.
According to the Palestinian Maan news agency, a total of 274 individuals died during the wave of unrest from Oct. 1, 2015 to Sept. 30 of this year, including 235 Palestinians, many of whom were killed while perpetrating attacks. During that period, attacks caused the death of 34 Israelis and five foreign nationals (two Americans, one Eritrean, one Sudanese and one Jordanian.)
Most recently, on Oct. 20 Israeli troops in the West Bank shot dead a Palestinian teenager who hurled rocks at a patrol near Hebron, the Israel Defense Forces said. — jta