A week after the mysterious killing of American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the situation in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories remains tense.

Israeli soldiers thwarted a knife attack near the city of Nablus on Tuesday.

Surveillance video shows a Palestinian running toward an occupying power post.

The soldiers shoot at the attacker and wound him.

There are repeated knife attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, mostly on soldiers.

Israel has occupied the territories since 1967.

Christian Meier

Political correspondent for the Middle East and Northeast Africa.

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visited a military headquarters in the West Bank on Tuesday and said: "Anyone who raises a hand against an Israeli civilian or a soldier of the IDF (Israeli Army) will pay for it." Bennett said his directive to the army be clear: to act against terrorists, everywhere and with every available weapon.

According to Israeli media reports, the army is considering using combat helicopters and armed drones in future military operations in the West Bank.

On Friday, a member of an elite police unit was wounded and later died in a firefight with Palestinians near the city of Jenin.

More than 70 injured after funeral

It also remained restless in East Jerusalem: A funeral escalated there again on Monday evening, six police officers and more than 70 Palestinians were injured.

According to police, hundreds of rioters threw stones, bottles and firecrackers at police officers, police used batons and tear gas and fired rubber bullets and concussion grenades.

According to official information, 20 people had been arrested by Tuesday afternoon.

According to the Israeli account, the riots began when a car sped towards police officers, who then shot at the tires.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Jordanian Foreign Ministry have criticized the behavior of the Israeli security forces.

The buried man, a 21-year-old from East Jerusalem, was wounded in clashes between Muslims and Israeli security forces on the Al-Aqsa plateau at the end of April and died over the weekend.

According to his family, he had been hit by a rubber bullet;

Israeli authorities say he threw stones and fell, hitting his head on the stone floor.

It was only on Friday that there were clashes between the police and Palestinians at the funeral of journalist Abu Akleh.

The behavior of the security forces was clearly criticized, for example on Monday by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa.

He spoke of a "disproportionate use of force" by police officers who, for example, took action against participants in the funeral procession with Palestinian flags.

The police announced an investigation.