Violence has spiralled in Israel and the West Bank after a series of attacks inside the Jewish state since last month, prompting raids and clashes in the occupied Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n
A total of 14 people have been killed in attacks inside Israel, most of them by Palestinians but also by Arab Israelis and a Bedouin, since March 22.<\/p>\n
More than 20 Palestinians have been killed in the same period, including the assailants behind the anti-Israeli attacks, according to an AFP tally.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has given Israeli forces a free hand to defeat terror in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War.<\/p>\n
Here is a timeline of the attacks:<\/p>\n
On March 22, four people are killed when a convicted Islamic State group sympathiser goes on a stabbing and car-ramming rampage in the southern city of Beersheba in Israels Negev desert.<\/p>\n
The assailant a Bedouin man who previously tried to join IS is shot dead by armed locals.<\/p>\n
On March 27, two policemen are shot dead and several others wounded in the northern Israeli city of Hadera, in an attack later claimed by IS.<\/p>\n
Police say the two gunmen Arab Israelis identified by Israeli intelligence as local IS operatives are killed by counter-terrorism officers.<\/p>\n
On March 29, five people are killed after a Palestinian from the West Bank village of Yabad opens fire at passers-by in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox Jewish city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n
A response team shoots dead the attacker.<\/p>\n
The five victims include an Arab-Israeli police officer who was part of the team responding to the shooting.<\/p>\n
On March 31, a Palestinian man stabs an Israeli civilian with a screwdriver on a bus south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, before a civilian shoots the assailant dead.<\/p>\n
The same day, Israeli police kill two Palestinians, aged 17 and 23, during a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin.<\/p>\n
On April 1, Israeli forces shoot dead a Palestinian during clashes in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron.<\/p>\n
The man is identified asa former detainee who spent six years in an Israeli prison.<\/p>\n
On April 2, an Israeli raid in the West Bank kills three members of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.<\/p>\n
Police say the three men opened fire when troops tried to arrest them near Jenin and that they were killed in the ensuing shootout.<\/p>\n
On April 7, a Palestinian gunman kills three people and wounds more than a dozen others in a popular nightlife district of Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n
After an all-night manhunt, Israeli police say they shot dead the Palestinian gunman, who is also from Jenin.<\/p>\n
The Israeli premier gives security agencies full freedom to curb the surge in violence.<\/p>\n
On April 9, Israeli security forces raid Jenin, killing one Palestinian. Islamic Jihad says one of its fighters died during clashes.<\/p>\n
On April 10, three Palestinians are killed in different incidents across the West Bank.<\/p>\n
Israeli forces shoot dead a Palestinian woman identified as a widowed mother of six near Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
The Israeli army says troops fired warning shots into the air when the woman approached them, before they fired towards the suspects lower body.<\/p>\n
In the village of Al-Khader near Bethlehem, the Israeli army opens fire on a 21-year-old Palestinian throwing a Molotov cocktail, killing him.<\/p>\n
On the same day, a woman stabs and lightly wounds an Israeli officer in Hebron before she is killed.<\/p>\n
Overnight, a 17-year-old dies of gunshot wounds after an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers in Jenin.<\/p>\n
On April 12, a Palestinian stabs a police officer with a kitchen knife, lightly wounding him, before being shot dead in the Israeli port city of Ashkelon.<\/p>\n
New Palestinian deaths in West Bank On April 13, a Palestinian lawyer and two teenagers are killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank.<\/p>\n
A day later, two youths and a 45-year-old Palestinian father of six are killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n
On April 14, more than 100 Arabs are wounded in clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police at annexed east Jerusalems Al-Aqsa mosque compound.<\/p>\n
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