A Palestinian teenager was shot dead as he tried to stab Border Police officers in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood on Saturday morning, in the second such incident in the span of less than an hour.

There were no reports of injuries among the security forces.

According to the IDF, the teen was stopped for routine questioning in the capital amid heightened tensions, before pulling out a knife and attempting to stab the officers.

Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up

He was later identified by Palestinian media as Muataz Awisat, 16, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber.

Police forensics examine knife used by terrorist in attack this morning in armon hanatziv neighborhood this morning pic.twitter.com/5HnM309TRU — Micky Rosenfeld (@MickyRosenfeld) October 17, 2015

Police units at scene of attack this morning in armon hanatziv. Arab terrorist shot and killed at scene pic.twitter.com/69luwZ4Aby — Micky Rosenfeld (@MickyRosenfeld) October 17, 2015

The incident in Armon Hanatziv came four days after a deadly attack in the same neighborhood in which two Israelis were killed when two Palestinian terrorists boarded a bus and began a shooting and stabbing spree. One attacker in that attack was killed at the scene by security forces, while the second was wounded and taken into custody.

Earlier Saturday, a Palestinian man was critically wounded when he was shot by an Israeli man he tried to stab near Hebron. The attacker died of his wounds shortly thereafter.

He was identified by Palestinian and Hebrew media reports as Fadel Muhammad Kawasmeh, 18, from Hebron.

According to initial reports, Kawasmeh approached his would-be victim, pulled out a knife and lunged; he was shot by the armed Israeli man, who was not hurt in the attempted attack.

The incident took place in a Jewish neighborhood of Hebron, a frequent flashpoint city where a few hundred Jews live in close proximity to tens of thousands of Palestinians.

The attempted attack came a day after a Palestinian man posing as a press photographer stabbed an Israeli soldier in the same area, moderately wounding him.

Breaking news : unknown martyr after he was shoot by a settler in the middle of #hebron city. pic.twitter.com/MC6fPPY3yU — جريدة القدس (@alqudsnewspaper) October 17, 2015

The attacker, identified as Eyad Khalil Awawdeh, 26, was shot dead by security forces at the scene.

[mappress mapid=”5322″]

Saturday’s incidents were the latest in a spate of near-daily attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces across Israel and in the West Bank.

Since October 1, seven Israelis have been killed and dozens injured in 30 separate stabbing or attempted stabbing attacks by Palestinian assailants..

On the Palestinian side, 39 have been killed so far, including 17 attackers. The rest died in clashes with IDF troops either in the West Bank or along the Gaza border. Two of the casualties, a pregnant woman and her two-year-old daughter, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on October 11, which came in response to an earlier rocket attack.