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This point if any influence the u.s. can have. >> situation seems to be getting out of control right now. eli elise, thanks. israel stepping up security, but the unpredictable and seemingly unorganized wave of violence poses a new kind of challenge. joining us now is the israeli police spokesman. thank you for joining us. the violence seems to be getting worse by the day. roadblocks are being established in some arab neighborhoods. but is shutting down the neighborhoods and bringing in more israeli troops the answer here? >> well, the israeli police have heightened security over the last in fa...

Only when the terrorist himself came out of the vehicle with a knife it was clear it was a terrorist attack and then he was shot twice in serious condition, taken to hospital. heightened security continuing here in jerusalem. >> reporter: the attack happened near a border patrol headquarters about ten miles north of the middle of jerusalem. it comes after a recent string of attacks in central jerusalem. police say a palestinian man drove his car into a crowd killing a baby and injuring others. and then a palestinian man drove a commercial van into a crowd killing a border police officer and in...

Nothing serious, medics took care of it. i'm going to put my helmet on quickly again, and they have firing hundreds of these throughout the last probably about two to three hours, hundreds well over 1,000 palestinians showed up for this funeral today, and what we saw was that as soon as the poddy was laid to rest of 16-year-old mohammed abu kadir, the mourners made their way to the intersection just to the south of here, it's a major intersection in jerusalem, dividing this neighborhood of sharfat with central jerusalem, very heavy security presence already when from the morning israeli police...

We want to return to breaking news out of jerusalem. we showed you some of the clashes breaking out just before the break over the palestinian teenager's death. he was killed in a revenge killing for what some are calling a revenge killing earlier this week. ben wedeman is on the ground outside in jerusalem. ben, we had some audio issues earlier. can you hear me now? >> reporter: yes, i can hear you. >> tell us more about what you're experiencing there and how this, how serious the situation this is. >> reporter: it's very serious clashes. these are the most serious clashes we've seen in jerus...

Holding the biggest military operation in more than ten years, looking for these three missing teenagers, during which of course more than 400 palestinians have been arrested six, rather seven were killed in clashes, one a boy as young as 15. so the at fear definitely gives you the feeling that this could get more serious, and then there's the situation in gaza where there have been rockets fired out of gaza, israel conducts air strikes, and so you have two very, rather three years, the west bank, jerusalem and gaza, areas of intense tension and the possibility for things to escalate even furt...