“If you throw stones, we will hit you with gas until you all die – the youth, the children, the old people, you will all die”.
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Since the latest unrest began on 1 October, at least 63 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israelis.
However, Makboul agrees with Okal that the final objective, to end the occupation and establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, won’t be so easy to accomplish.
On October 28, Israeli officials summoned New Zealand’s ambassador to both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Jonathan Curr, to express their displeasure with the proposed resolution, Israel’s Channel 2 reported. One was stabbed and another was shot, having been hit by gunfire directed at the assailant, they said.
But it admits the matter was discussed with Israel at diplomatic level and Israel’s opposition would have been conveyed to New Zealand. Mansara was seen in a video lying on the ground covered in blood as Israelis shouted obscenties at him and told him to die. Others were shot dead while carrying out knife attacks.
The clashes in central Hebron erupted on Thursday following the earlier killing of 19-year-old Farouk Abdel Sidr on nearby Shuhada Street.
Israel claimed he tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint. In light of the mounting civilian death toll among Palestinians, such threats merely add words to the deed. He is Jewish, and has always been an outspoken critic of Israel and the Israeli government.
Israel has retroactively legalised a few 800 homes in 4 settlements within the occupied West Bank, the inside ministry stated.
Numerous attackers who have targeted Israeli forces come from the Hebron, a stronghold of the Islamist Hamas movement.
Israel has pledged to abide by the long-standing arrangement at the site in Jerusalem’s walled Old City. The boom of tear gas canisters fired by soldiers at Palestinian stone-throwers reverberated across Hebron.
The strong belief by Palestinians that this status quo is changing has led Al-Haram to be the focus of violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in recent months, and an ongoing escalation of violence, triggered, in part, by Palestinian charges that Israel intends to change the status quo on the religious site.
They lightly wounded one policeman before being shot by a policewoman at the scene, the spokeswoman said.
In the city of Nablus, two Palestinians allegedly tried to stab members of Israeli forces guarding a checkpoint and were shot, police said. “All our families have martyrs, injured and prisoners”, he said.
Several of the camps have gained notoriety, such as Sabra and Shatila in Beirut where hundreds of Palestinians were massacred by the Israeli-backed Christian Phalangist militia in 1982.
“This is the first time I heard them say something like that over a speaker for everyone to hear”, Ikhlayel continued.
The teenagers, all killed by Israeli forces this month in apparent extrajudicial executions, were Dania Irsheid, 17, Bayan al-Esseili, 16, Tariq Ziyad al-Natshe, 16, Husam Ismail al-Jabari, 17, and 15-year-old Bashar Nidal al-Jabari. They will be buried on Saturday. In Jenin city, north of the West Bank, Israel delivered the body of 16-year-old Ahmed Kmail to his family for burial.
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The global community regards all Jewish settlements in the West Bank as illegal, but the Israeli government makes a distinction between those it has authorised and those it has not.
