An Islamic State-affiliated website posted a video purporting to show a Muslim preacher in Gaza waving a knife in a fiery Friday sermon, urging Palestinians to carry out attacks in groups and warning “the Jews” that “Mohammed’s army” is coming from Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
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“We are doing this as a temporary emergency measure so that we can examine the implementation, and if there will be a need, we will make the law even harsher”, he said in a statement.
Israel said it had targeted “two Hamas weapon manufacturing facilities” in response to two rocket launches at Israel yesterday, as well as a number of attempts by Palestinians to violently break into Israel from Gaza. She said the two Israeli victims are minors. He said four others were wounded, included Hassan’s husband and son.
Expressing support for recent events, he said that “This new Palestinian generation has not awaited reconciliation talks to embody a national unity [that] political parties have failed to achieve”. There were conflicting reports as to exactly what happened.
But a bus driver and eyewitness to the incident told CNN that there appeared to be a malfunction in the woman’s auto and that there were smoke and fire coming from the back seat area of it after she was stopped by the officer.
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said the woman tried to detonate a gas canister.
Tensions have been running high between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops since August 26, when the Tel Aviv regime imposed sweeping restrictions on entries into the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque.
“The Zionist regime, by no means, has the right to occupy and divided the al-Aqsa Mosque”, she noted.
Barghouti, who was arrested in 2002 and is serving five life sentences, is seen as a possible successor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The closure, done for security reasons, lasted a day.
Police described the alleged attacker as a “terrorist”, but gave no more details on his identity.
The police officer’s protective vest stopped the knife and he was unharmed.
The attack near the town of Hadera in northern Israel occurred in the evening. A total of three policemen were taken to hospital, with one in serious condition, she said. Both of the attackers were killed by police, authorities said.
The wave of attacks began weeks ago in Jerusalem and has since spread across Israel, while violent protests have erupted in the West Bank and along the Gaza border – where nine Palestinians, including two children, were killed in clashes over the weekend.
Hundreds more Palestinians were injured in clashes in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, the Red Crescent added.
He said that the 31-year-old Palestinian was carrying handwritten notes supporting Islamic martyrs – those who die while carrying out jihadist attacks.
He said that the death of the Henken couple, and of the Israelis killed thereafter, only further reinforces the urgency of the Israeli settlement enterprise in the West Bank, which he says is a Jewish birthright.
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Udi Levy, the head of the task force created to combat settler violence, said that attacks have in the past year moved away from smaller scale attacks like vandalisations and the uprooting of olive orchards, and have instead tended towards physical attacks against Palestinians with the intent of causing harm.
