It has been called the “smartphone intifada”. “We are reinforcing security forces, providing backup to security forces, taking steps to generate deterrence and imposing penalties”.
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Palestinian news outlets have made a point of noting Israeli forces frequently shoot and kill Palestinians accused of attacking Israelis as opposed to detaining them.
In an earlier report from Jerusalem, NPR’s Emily Harris told our Newscast unit that Palestinians on Friday set fire to Joseph’s Tomb.
But it cited Israeli politicians and police commanders as openly calling for extra-judicial killings since the upswing in tensions.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict late Friday. Police minister Gilad Erdan similarly declared: “Every terrorist should know that he will not survive the attack he is about to commit”.
Israeli army spokesperson Peter Lerner said on his Twitter account that the Palestinian man drew “a second knife” to stab a bombs expert who came to inspect the man.
It’s often young Palestinians who may be acting out alone or recruited or at least encouraged via social media, Israeli authorities have said.
“The war on terror is global and common to many countries, and the September 11 attacks as well as our wave of terror originate from the same source of evil that we must eradicate”, he said.
During a press briefing a State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that Kerry would meet Netanyahu during his visit in Europe in the coming days.
Senior Israeli officials, Maj. A third Palestinian was shot by police in Hebron after stabbing and wounding a police officer after nightfall.
Although the security services have claimed there was a knife in her hand, she can be seen making no effort to attack them. One remedy would be the resumption of serious negotiations on Palestinian statehood. The Palestinian teen is recovering in an Israeli hospital.
Suspicions have been raised too about the fatal shooting of Basel Sidr on 14 October.
Police said the assailant was a 16-year-old from nearby Jabel Mukaber, the same neighbourhood that was home to three Palestinians who carried out attacks earlier this week. The border policewoman shot and killed the suspect.
Jadalah, of Addameer, said: “These videos are helping to fuel Palestinian rage”.
From today, a few 300 IDF soldiers will be deployed at public transport stops, on buses, and along traffic routes in Jerusalem.
Pope Francis is calling for “much courage and much strength of spirit” to bring an end to violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
The Israeli deputy ambassador to the United Nations, David Roet, defended Israel’s strategy, saying it confronted an enemy “willing to die so that you can kill” and was “answering proportionately”.
The violence has mostly occurred in Jerusalem and the West Bank but it has also erupted along the Gaza-Israel border. It is the first time in more than a decade soldiers have been used inside Israel.
The shrine is under Palestinian control and off-limits to Israelis except on escorted trips organised by the army.
The mayor met his Tel Aviv counterpart, Ron Huldai, in the seaside city on Saturday before attending an event at a mixed Jewish and Palestinian school.
De Blasio pledged solidarity with the Israeli people during his three-day jaunt to the Holy Land amid a stabbing spree that took the lives of eight Israelis.
Whether the Jewish biblical patriarch Joseph, and his sons Ephraim and Manasseh, are indeed buried in the tomb remains unclear to this day.
Dore Gold, a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official, said the site was targeted “just because it is a place in which Jews pray”. Adding daily protests and heavy clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in almost every Palestinian part of the city, it’s clear that Jerusalem has become Israel’s top security problem.
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“I respect the decision of my son and what he did, and if the Israeli authorities decide not to return (his body) to us and bury him in another place, then he will be buried in Palestinian soil”, he said.
