No injuries were reported.
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Rabbi Richard Plavin of Beth Shalom B’nai Israel in Manchester, Connecticut, which Lakin attended before moving to Israel in 1984, said Lakin was a passionate man who pursued peace and justice.
A shadowy Gaza group, inspired by the Islamic State organization, claimed responsibility for the attack. The audience is distracted by one hand while the other hand is executing the illusion.
Samarah, who grew up in Jerusalem’s Old City, said he now fears that Israel is plotting to take away his residency rights, which include unemployment assistance of about $600 a month.
“Forces responded to the attack with immediate fire”.
Raed Said, a doctor at a hospital in Hebron said the Palestinian was pronounced dead on arrival Monday evening. He said he was killed in nearby clashes with Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli military said it was checking the claim.
Monday’s violence took the number of Palestinians killed in attempted attacks and clashes to 56.
Rabin was gunned down on November 4, 1995 by a rightwing Jewish extremist who hoped to derail the landmark 1993 Oslo accords he inked with the Palestinians.
The former territory known as Palestine ruled by the British and the Ottoman Turks until 1948 when it became Israel had both Jews and Arabs living in it, so the term “Palestinians” that Mr Spedding applies exclusively to the Arabs also applied to the Jews who were also Palestinian before 1948.
According to Israeli journalists, this represents the first time that Netanyahu, now in his fourth term as Israeli prime minister, has raised the possibility of dividing the city that the government had previously maintained was a united city for both Jews and Arabs.
The army would not elaborate on the condition of the Palestinian. Palestinians see East Jerusalem as the capital of any future Palestinian state. “There needs to be a discussion about it”, Netanyahu reportedly said. Jerusalem Palestinians are not Israeli citizens, but they hold Israeli-issued blue IDs that grant them permanent resident status. Removing residency rights en masse appears highly unlikely due to legal hurdles and domestic and global opposition.
A flurry of diplomatic activity last week saw meetings between US Secretary of State John Kerry with Netanyahu in Berlin, before he flew to Amman to meet Abbas and King Abdullah II. Palestinians have accused Israel of trying to expand the Jewish presence at the site in violation of decades-old arrangements.
In an effort to lower tensions at the site, Israeli and Jordanian officials said yesterday that new surveillance cameras should be installed within days at the shrine, with the goal of streaming footage live online for maximum transparency.
Israeli police had no immediate comment. “Netanyahu’s statement exploits the current emergency situation to further undermine Palestinian existence in east Jerusalem by threatening to expel an estimated 100,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites from the city”, said Yudith Oppenheimer, executive director of Ir Amim, an advocacy group that promotes coexistence in Jerusalem. She says the stabbing was of a “criminal” nature. Israeli police often do not venture into those areas, and Israeli utilities offer only limited services there.
And an Israeli Jew and an Eritrean have also been killed after being mistaken for attackers. But Israel has transferred over half a million people into settlements constructed on Palestinian land that was militarily occupied, then illegally seized, since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights began in 1967. Israel has repeatedly denied the allegation, which has been amplified by social media and past visits to the compound by ultranationalist Israeli politicians.
Palestinians are angry over what they see as excessive use of force by Israeli police and soldiers.
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It was the latest incident in weeks of nearly daily Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces.
