The Palestinian government has said Israel is carrying out unlawful killings of Palestinians and “accusing every victim of holding a knife” or planting one at the side of alleged attackers.
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She was hit by a auto driven by a Jewish settler leader and then shot by security forces.
Magen David Adom paramedics quickly arrived on the scene, but were unable to revive the young Israeli man, who was pronounced dead at the scene. After crashing his auto, he emerged with a knife and tried to stab people, but was shot dead by a bystander before he could harm anyone.
However, witnesses refuted Israeli allegations saying the settler opened fire on the taxi driver after the latter’s auto accidentally collided with the settlers’ vehicle.
It came hours after two Palestinian girls, aged 14 and 16, used scissors to attack a 70-year-old Palestinian man outside Mahane Yehuda market in central Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would let Israel’s army operate with “no restriction” in an effort to stem two months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
An Israeli man was lightly wounded, Haaretz reported. CBS’s Boston affiliate said Schwartz was from Sharon, Massachusetts.In the Tel Aviv attack, a police spokeswoman said the assailant who had attacked worshippers gathered for afternoon prayers in a shop that sells Jewish religious items in the building was apprehended and a third person was wounded.
A surge in street violence since October 1 has challenged Israel’s security system and alarmed its main ally the United States, whose Secretary of State John Kerry is due to visit the region this week.
The current wave of violence was sparked amid strife over the flashpoint holy site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in east Jerusalem, holy to both Jews and Muslims, and quickly spread throughout the country amid dim prospects of a peace treaty based on the two-state solution. Israel says the a lot of them were attackers who were shot dead while or after knife attacks.
The restriction applied to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, south of Jerusalem, as well as the nearby settlement towns of Efrat and Beitar Ilit, where an estimated 2,000 Palestinians work.
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“We’re not trying to make any kind of an agreement with the Israelis ourselves, and we’re certainly not trying to make any kind of agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians to resume negotiations or otherwise”.
