Israeli Leader Cites Steep Drop in Palestinian Attacks

Israel’s prime minister says there has been a significant drop in the rate of Palestinian attacks against Israelis.
Israeli Leader Cites Steep Drop in Palestinian Attacks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office on March 27, 2016. Abir Sultan/AFP/Getty Images
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JERUSALEM—Israel’s prime minister says there has been a significant drop in the rate of Palestinian attacks against Israelis.

Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he was citing the figures of Israel’s Shin Bet security service carefully because “this trend could be reversed.” But there have been no casualties over the past two and half weeks, the slowest stretch in a seven-month wave of stabbings, shootings and vehicular attacks that has killed 28 Israelis and two Americans.