Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinian assailants in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, police and the army said, as a month-long spate of stabbing attacks showed no signs of abating.
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The 28 bodies are held at the Abu Kabir Forensic institute in Tel Aviv, infamously known as the place where an Israeli doctor harvested organs and body parts from Palestinian bodies without seeking permission from their families.
Earlier Wednesday, another knife-wielding Arab attacked several soldiers in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron.
(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi, File).
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the hospital is legally required to report about people it treats who were involved in “criminal or violent activity”, and that the police entered the site after discovering the hospital hadn’t done so. The Israeli government says it has no such adjustment in mind, and that seems to be true. Two Israelis were killed and more than 20 were wounded in the attack.
Israel says almost all of those killed in Hebron were knife-wielding attackers, but rights groups have challenged that, saying a few did not pose a threat to soldiers’ lives.
An American educator and peace activist who labored for coexistence and who died this week from wounds sustained in a Palestinian assault is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit towards Facebook for permitting ugly Palestinian pages that incite violence, his son has stated.
“The latest was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to establish a civil court to speed up collective punishment and issue orders of administrative detention, houses demolitions and residency withdrawal”, added the statement.
Also, crucially, this struggle needs to aim to mobilise wide layers in society to oppose the root causes of the problem: the occupation and settlements, the discrimination and national oppression, and the capitalist system. “If you eat good hummus, you will feel the love from the person who made it”, Tzafrir said. The refusal to even acknowledge colonial violence, and in return, affirm the Palestinians’ right to anti-colonial struggle invalidates any political hypothesis disseminated by the European Union and the UN. He dismissed allegations of systematic settler violence, portraying Palestinians as the main aggressors.
While Israel provides security at the site, Palestinian Muslims make up the bulk of those who pray there.
With all the anger and fury surrounding the Temple Mount lately, a fact that has largely gone unnoticed is that it is the site of the Jewish Temples which has become the defining symbol for Muslims, rather than the al-Aqsa Mosque, which faces the Kaaba in Mecca.
The frequent raids together with Israel’s imposition of sweeping restrictions on entry into the compound since August 26 have prompted Palestinian protests.
During the interview, the Times of Israel reported, Hussein denied there had ever been a Jewish presence atop the Temple Mount, in clear contradiction of historical evidence, including “A brief guide to Al-Haram Al-Sharif” published by the Supreme Moslem Council in 1924. After Israel erected roadblocks in Jerusalem earlier this month, restricting the movement of Palestinians, the momentum shifted to traditionally volatile Hebron.
An interim agreement in the 1990s divided the city, placing the center under full Israeli control and the rest under Palestinian self-rule.
Speaking to the local Ma’an News Agency, Palestinian eyewitnesses said that neitherof the killed men had tried to stab soldiers.
“Additional troops will reinforce the area and will carry out thorough searches”.
A third eyewitness said that students of a nearby elementary school threw stones at the Israeli soldiers who responded by firing live rounds at them.
Other experts put the reduction in attacks in Jerusalem down to more than just police actions. A paramilitary policeman shot and killed the man. The soldier was not seriously injured.
Abbas said the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories is at its “worst and most critical since 1948” – the year of Israel’s independence – and insisted “it is no longer useful to waste time in negotiations for the sake of negotiations”. Amnesty worldwide said four shootings it investigated, including three in Hebron, “appear to have been extra-judicial executions”. “This conveniently redirects the focus from the reality of the threat and the real victims of Palestinian incitement, violence and terror”.
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Increased visitor numbers by religious Jews to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque plaza – Islam’s holiest site outside Saudi Arabia but also revered in Judaism as the location of two destroyed biblical temples – have spurred Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a “status quo” by which Jewish prayer there is banned.
