On Thursday, a Palestinian stabbed a female soldier and four other people with a screwdriver near Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv before he was shot and killed by another soldier, police said.
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The attack occurred in the city of Dimona. When Israeli police – acting on intelligence that the Muslims planned to throw the stones at Jews praying at the Western Wall, below the Temple Mount – confronted them at the mosque, televised news footage outraged the Arab world.
A rash of Palestinian stabbings of Israelis, which continued Thursday with four more attacks, has been the work of lone assailants with no record of arrests or links to Palestinian militant groups, according to police officials.
Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces clash in the West Bank village of Tuqua, southeast of Bethlehem, on October 8, 2015. As for King Abdullah’s dismay about the treatment of Muslims on the Temple Mount, he should be reminded that the armistice agreement of 1948 between Israel and the invading Arab states, including Jordan, specified continued Jewish access to the Western Wall – something that was never implemented by his grandfather or father in the 19 years Jordan held it. I am all in favor of the “status quo” – as it was in 586 BCE. “It might take time, but our actions will prevail”.
The order Wednesday night came following a day that saw at least six Palestinian attacks on Israeli targets.
Arab Member of Knesset Ahmad Tibi of the United Arab List has demonstrated time and again his solidarity with his Palestinian compatriots, and like them sees dead terrorists as shahids (martyrs).
It was a bid to help calm the ongoing tensions, which have been punctuated by multiple deadly terror attacks by Palestinians in recent days and clashes in the West Bank. The mosque there, which is considered the third-holiest in Islam, is situated on Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site. Perhaps he could have been stopped and arrested, she said. Patrol officers from the Yiftach District of the Israel Police allowed the demonstration to proceed, despite the lack of a permit, for the sake of allowing the protesters to have their say.
“Demolishing terrorists’ houses and deporting their families is the best deterrent and most efficient way to deal with terrorism by individuals”, Ben-Dahan said.
Four Israelis have been killed in attacks over the past week.
The security situation has deteriorated dramatically over the past week in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a news release.
The images are accompanied by a song about the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the duty to defend the shrine with knives, firebombs, pistols and vehicular attacks.
The unrest began about three weeks ago at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem.
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Secondly, the IDF and the Israeli Security Service Shin Beth have succeeded in dismantling much of the terror infrastructure that was built in the West Bank by Hamas since the Second Intifada. The Palestinians have accused Israelis of violent retaliation and Israeli authorities of increased repression to quell the violence. Five Palestinians, including three of the attackers, have been killed.
