4 Israelis stabbed, Palestinian attacker dead

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Four Israelis were stabbed in separate attacks Monday while a Palestinian teenager who tried to stab a soldier was shot dead.

Israeli occupation forces also stormed a Palestinian university in the occupied West Bank, following more than a month of violence that has raised fears of a third Palestinian Intifada, or uprising.

An Israeli in his seventies was left in serious condition after he was stabbed by a Palestinian in Netanya, 30km north of Tel Aviv.

The attacker was "neutralised", Israeli forces said.

Earlier, three Israelis were stabbed in attacks near the central bus station in Rishon LeZion, about 10km south of Tel Aviv, Israel said.

The attacker, a 19-year-old Palestinian from Hebron in the West Bank, stabbed two people on the pavement and a third in a clothes store, the statement added.

Medical sources said two of the three Israelis stabbed were in severe condition.

Israeli forces arrested the Palestinian.

Sixty-eight Palestinians, nine Israelis, and an Arab Israeli have been killed in a wave of unrest since the start of October.

Elsewhere, Israeli forces stormed a university in the town of Abu Dis after confrontations with students protesting Israel's separation barrier and Palestinian deaths.

The confrontations erupted after students from Al Quds University gathered to demonstrate at the foot of the controversial barrier that separates Abu Dis from occupied Jerusalem.

At least one protester used an axe as a makeshift sledgehammer to strike the wall.

The students then pulled back into campus and threw stones at occupation forces who approached the gates.

The Israelis fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades before forcing open the gates of the university and going inside.

The number of wounded in the confrontation was not immediately clear.

But Palestinian medics said many people were hit by rubber bullets and injured in the upper parts of their bodies, while others suffered from smoke inhalation due to tear gas.