Sudanese migrant stabs Israeli soldier, is shot dead: police

A Sudanese migrant in Israel stabbed and wounded a soldier in an apparent act of solidarity with Palestinians and was shot dead, police said.

If that motive is confirmed, it would be the first such attack by a foreigner during a four-month-old surge of Palestinian street violence fueled in part by Muslim anger at perceived Jewish encroachment on a contested Jerusalem shrine.

In the occupied West Bank, a tent used as a synagogue near an Israeli outpost was the target of a suspected arson attack in which several Torah scrolls were burned.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called at the weekly meeting of his cabinet on Sunday for international condemnation of "this heinous act" and said it should equal the outcry over the desecration of mosques by suspected Jewish militants in recent years.

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