In Jerusalem, a 16-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israeli was stabbed and wounded.
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“The closure is quite serious”, says Rima Awad of the Coalition for Jerusalem, a grassroots collective of Palestinian organizations. “They (settlers) are attempting to foil the Palestinian national project while we aim to build it”, he said.
The group met Feltman because Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is traveling. Over the next five years, this pattern persisted - administration officials largely absolved the Palestinians of responsibility for incitement and terror while threatening to reassess relations with Israel and calling the leader of a close ally a “chicken -“.
The move by Israeli authorities to prevent Muslim men under 50 from attending prayers at the site angered Palestinian leaders.
The recent surge in violence was initially sparked by increased restrictions on Palestinian access to Al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestinians throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails in protest.
Israeli police say a soldier has been stabbed in an attack in northern Israel. Rosenfeld said other police forces opened fire and killed the attacker, but also wounded one of their own. Police rushed to the scene and searched the area, she said. Kirby said he had no details on the Israeli attack when asked.
As the Palestinians see things, these comments show the Israeli government’s deep double standard.
Israeli forces shot dead at least six Palestinians and wounded dozens more after a group of protesters threw stones at the eastern Gaza border fence on Friday, October 9. The police later released video of a long-bladed kitchen knife they said she had used.
On Friday morning In Jerusalem, a Palestinian used a vegetable peeler to stab a 14-year-old Israeli boy in Jerusalem, leaving him with minor injuries.
The rally had been called in support of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem and followed a spate of attacks by Palestinians against Israelis and reprisals by Jews against Arabs.
In northern Israel, a 29-year-old Arab-Israeli woman was shot and wounded while trying to stab people at a bus station in the town of Afula, where another stabbing had taken place the day before, police said. She said the attacks were likely “nationalistically” motivated.
The attack is the latest in a bout of violence that began three weeks ago and has spilled over into Israel’s heartland.
The mounting tension has empowered hardliners on both sides.
There was a Palestinian stabbing attack in the same city Thursday night. He castigated those who used Molotov cocktails, knives and rocks as well as live ammunition against Israeli citizens and security forces.
Moreover, the documents provide details about the salaries of members of the Palestinian security forces who carried out terrorist attacks during the Second Intifada and are now in prison in Israel. Further clashes broke out at the Bet El checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday.
Abbas insisted the Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation. But al-Aqsa also sits on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.
The hilltop religious site is a frequent flashpoint and its fate is a core issue at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians have repeatedly barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque there, and hurled stones, firebombs and fireworks at the police. They often identify with Palestinian nationalism.
Later, just outside the Old City, another Palestinian stabbed two police officers, one in the neck. He was lightly wounded in the upper part of his body and is receiving medical attention, Samri said.
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Israel’s Prime Minister has condemned an Israeli stabbing attack that injured 4 Arabs. The site is so sensitive that even rumors are enough to trigger violence there. It later spread to Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and to the West Bank.
