The recent violence in the West Bank, including the killing of a Jewish settler couple in front of their children near the Itmar settlement on Oct 1, has given ammunition to the Israeli pro-settlement lobby, commentators say. In more than 90 percent of these cases, there is no reporting in the mainstream media and no investigation by the Israeli authorities.
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Nine Israelis were slain in the same period.
Elsewhere at the village of Kufer Kadum scores of residents and their worldwide supporters were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation as Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly protest organized there.
“The soldiers did not wait long to open fire”, said Zanoun.
Hebron has been the site of days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops, and also the scene of several stabbing attacks by Palestinians.
Isa Ajlouni, who lives in an apartment building next to the checkpoint, told The Electronic Intifada that he heard approximately five shots in close succession. They said the wounded man was in critical condition. The bodies were to undergo autopsies on Friday night to determine the causes of death.
Ajlouni said that he also saw a bleeding Israeli officer by the checkpoint.
The group said a photo of her body shows a knife lying near the body.
Four stone-throwing youths were hurt in Hebron when dozens of them clashed with security forces.
Israel, which is not a member of the court, has declined to cooperate with both this and a previous probe relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, arguing that Palestine is not a state and so has no right to join.
President Mahmoud Abbas met on Friday ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at The Hague amid continued Israeli violence against Palestinians, Arab48.com reported Palestinian officials as saying.
The 29-year-old woman, Asraa Abed, was surrounded by Israeli forces and then shot after she drew a knife at a bus station in northern Israel earlier this month. On Friday, it said it had released seven bodies, apparently to ease tensions.
The Israeli army has also carried out a limited number of house demolitions of terrorists homes, another tactic that has enraged Palestinians, but which Israel says is necessary to deter further attacks. You can begin to see stones being thrown at:28 in the video.
The attacker, 23-year-old Mahdi al-Mohtaseb, was shot dead. Israel denies such claims. Palestinian ambulances took the wounded man to hospital.
Hamdallah was the first Palestinian leader to clearly condemn recent attacks on civilians, although numerous knifings have targeted Israeli soldiers and police.
On Wednesday, another 40-year-old woman was stabbed and moderately wounded in the West Bank, only half an hour after a Palestinian unsuccessfully attempted to stab soldiers in Hebron.
Saturday’s shooting followed a tense day on Friday in which two suspected Palestinian stabbers were shot dead and 19 others were wounded by Israeli fire in West Bank clashes, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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Thousands of Palestinian mourners gathered for the funerals of the five teenagers, including two girls, in Hebron, a powder-keg in the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict. They will be buried on Saturday. “He took the gas masks off a few journalists to spray them directly in the face”, Arouri told progressive Israeli magazine +972. “This conveniently redirects the focus from the reality of the threat and the real victims of Palestinian incitement, violence and terror”. But in the West Bank, this is considered normal.
