PA denounces 'Israeli escalation' in Jerusalem

The Palestinian authority denounced "Israeli escalation" on Sunday after Israel temporarily banned Palestinians from entering Jerusalem's Old City following attacks that killed two people and wounded a child.

“The Palestinian government denounces the Israeli escalation policy by Israeli occupation authorities against our people in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank," it said in a statement after the imposition of the two-day ban.

On Saturday night, a Palestinian said to be an Islamist militant killed two Israeli men and wounded a woman and a toddler in a knife and gun attack in the Old City. Police shot dead the attacker.

In a separate incident early Sunday, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded a passerby in west Jerusalem before being shot dead by police while fleeing.