The Palestinian was shot and killed at a checkpoint between the West Bank and Israel when he tried to stab a border guard, police said.
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An increased number of visits by religious Jews to Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque plaza – Islam’s holiest site outside Saudi Arabia and revered in Judaism as the location of two destroyed biblical temples – have spurred Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a “status quo” under which Jewish prayer there is banned.
At least 20 Palestinians from Hebron have been shot dead in attacks and alleged attacks.
Israeli authorities informed the governor of Hebron of their decision to return the bodies of seven Palestinians on Friday evening.
Elsewhere at the village of Kufer Kadum scores of residents and their global supporters were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation as Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly protest organized there.
Hamdallah was the first Palestinian leader to clearly condemn recent attacks on civilians, although numerous knifings have targeted Israeli soldiers and police.
Rights groups have accused Israeli troops of using excessive force in a few of the cases, a charge Israel’s military has denied.
In order to ensure their personal safety, 70 percent of Israeli Palestinians said they have limited the amount of time they spend inside of Jewish Israeli cities and town. An Israeli man was wounded in the cross-fire.
Around 500 Palestinians protested and clashed with Israeli forces, according to witnesses.
Abbas answered that he was willing to address incitement “both by Israel and by Palestinians” under USA brokerage, but that Israel was unwilling to.
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour supported New Zealand’s efforts but said the resolution doesn’t address the need of Palestinian civilians for global protection and is “not strong enough to stop Israel… from the continuous aggression it is waging against the Palestinian civilian population”.
Amnesty global is calling on the Israeli authorities to conduct an effective, independent investigation into the circumstances of the killing of Fadel al-Qawasmeh, and for the perpetrator of the attack to be brought to justice.
Here are photos from recent clashes Friday October 30, 2015.
Violence between Israelis and Palestinians has continued in recent days with attacks concentrated in the Hebron area of the occupied West Bank.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, in the volatile city of Hebron, hundreds of youths lobbed stones, firebombs and burning tyres at Israeli soldiers who hit back with tear gas and rubber bullets. Members of the Da’ana extended family, who live next to the settlement and witnessed the attack, told Amnesty global that Israeli forces were present and failed to intervene.
Earlier on Friday in the West Bank, two Palestinians drove up to a checkpoint on a motorcycle, dismounted and then charged an officer from the paramilitary border police, Samri said.
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The Palestinians were injured by Israeli troops’ gunfire during the clashes that broke out in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem and Nablus, and on the borderline area between eastern, northern and southern Gaza Strip and Israel.
