RAMALLAH, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian presidency said in a statement Thursday that it blamed Israel for recent surge in violence for which "both sides have paid price," the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The presidency stressed that its constant policy is to "reject violence, incursions and settlers' terror and not to create an atmosphere that contributes to the aggravation of the situation," the statement said.
The statement came as Israel cordoned off Ramallah city Thursday amid repeated incursions in the West Bank in the past two days.
Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adarei declared a closure was imposed on Ramallah city and deployed reinforcements in several locations around Ramallah and Al-Bireh cities following a shooting attack that left two Israelis killed and two others critically wounded at a main junction near Givat Asaf.
Meanwhile, Palestinian sources announced that three young men were killed by Israeli forces in West Bank's Ramallah and Nablus Wednesday night and East Jerusalem Thursday dawn.
Local sources said that around dawn call for prayers, Israeli police forces shot down a Palestinian after he allegedly attacked two police officers leaving them moderate wounds. The officers, one male and one female, were rushed to the hospital, but the suspected Palestinian perpetrator was fatally shot on the spot.
On Wednesday night, Israeli authorities notified the Palestinian Authority (PA) liaison office of killing Ashraf Na'alwa in Askar refugee camp near Nablus after a nearly two months' manhunt.
Na'alwa was accused by Israel of carrying out a shooting attack in Barkan industrial settlement, killing two Israelis in the north of the West Bank last October.
Israeli sources declared that a special Israeli force arrested two Palestinians near Ramallah city on Wednesday night, and announced one was killed a few hours after arrest, identified as Saleh Barghouti, 29 years old.
Israeli army said Barghouti was an accomplice in the Ofra settlement shooting last Sunday, which led to injuring seven Israeli settlers.
