‘Five dead in Palestinian attacks in Tel Aviv, West Bank’

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A Palestinian fatally stabbed two people in a Tel Aviv office building and three other people were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israel said.

In the latest attack near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank, an Israeli official said a Palestinian drove along the shoulder of the main road and shot at crawling traffic, killing three people and wounding others.

Israeli forces spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said the attacker's car stopped when it hit another vehicle and the driver was seized. He said an American citizen was one of three people killed. The others were a Palestinian and an Israeli.

At least seven other people were wounded, a medical source said. The attack brought to 18 the number of Israelis and others who have died, along with 80 Palestinians, in a wave of violence over the past seven weeks.

In the Tel Aviv attack, an Israeli spokesperson said the assailant, who had attacked worshippers gathered for afternoon prayers in a shop that sells Jewish religious items in the building, was apprehended and a third person was wounded.