EAST JERUSALEM — The Muslim Quarter in the Old City is quiet. Palestinian owners of the shops that remain open cluster on corners, watchful, drinking coffee and talking politics.

“In ’67, there was a policeman in every alleyway,” one says to another. Today a crowd of police and army officers gather at a fork in the cobblestones. Several dozen Orthodox Jewish men emerge from an alley nearby. They have come from praying at the Western Wall. The security forces escort them to the gates.

The extra security measures have been put in place following several days of violence in this divided city.

On Saturday night in the Old City a young man stabbed several members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, leaving two men dead and injuring a woman and a toddler. The attacker, a 19-year-old Palestinian man from a village near Ramallah in the West Bank, was shot dead by security forces. Later that night a Jewish Israeli teenager was injured in another stabbing and far-right Jewish activists roamed the streets chanting "Death to Arabs."

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The PM resists calls for a harsher security response to terrorism and more settlement building; the PA chief opts not to end security cooperation with Israel; lots of their constituents are fuming.

At roughly the same time, two leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, met with their respective cabinets and security experts on Monday night to discuss the uptick in violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Both meetings produced decisions that would leave large segments of their constituency deeply disappointed.

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Israel will place cameras both on the ground and in the air over the roads in Judea and Samaria that will be linked to command centers to provide immediate IDF response to violence on the roads, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.

Netanyahu's comments came during a visit to the site near Itamar where terrorists murdered Eitam and Naama Henkin last Thursday night. Netanyahu was accompanied by Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot.

“The focus of this visit was on active defense of the roads,” Netanyahu said, adding that “a large portion of the attacks take place on the roads.” He said that the enhanced surveillance, along with the ability for quick response, can “significantly” improve Israel's ability to both thwart attacks and apprehend the perpetrators

“This is a very, very important component in bringing back security,” he said.

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Israeli forces Wednesday seized and turned two Palestinian houses into military outposts in Halhul town, north of Hebron, said security and municipal sources.

Israeli forces and so-called “Civil Administration” officers broke into the Halhul locality of al-Hawawer, adjacent to a military camp and the Israeli settlement of Karmi Zur, where they seized and turned a house belonging to Fathi Mer‘ib, a Palestinian expatriate in the US.

Head of Halhul Local Council Wajdi Melhem told WAFA Israeli soldiers broke into the house and forced Mer‘ib’s nephew, Nidal Karja, and his family, out of the house.

Nidal was handed an order notifying him of the Israeli forces’ plan to seize the house for military purposes.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers broke into and turned another house, located between Nuba and Halhul towns, into a military outpost. Municipal sources from Halhul told WAFA that forces broke into the empty house, which belongs to ‘Abdul-Qader al-Sa‘da, and raised the Israeli flag on the rooftop.

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