Palestinian opposed the idea saying that Israel would use the cameras to “arrest Palestinians on the pretext of incitement”.
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Meanwhile, Palestinians gave a hero’s welcome on Thursday to released prisoner Mohammed Allan, who had staged an unprecedented 66-day hunger strike over the summer, in protest of his one-year detention by Israel without charge.
He was previously imprisoned from 2006 to 2009 for allegedly seeking to recruit suicide bombers and aiding wanted Palestinians. Despair and frustration among young Palestinians are driving much of the violence, with many feeling they have nothing to lose, Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate head Major General Herzi Halevi has said, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Israel says the barrier, which stretches inside the West Bank, is necessary for security, while Palestinians brand it an “apartheid wall”.
A Palestinian driver ran over and injured an Israeli border policeman near the West Bank city of Hebron today and was then killed by Israeli forces, police said.
Medical sources said two of the three Israelis stabbed were in severe condition.
It is not the first time for Israel to issue a demolition order on a mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
In Israel, a news website closely followed by religious Jews hosted a video game in which children were urged to “neutralize” attackers dressed as Arabs.
On Friday, it said it had released seven bodies, apparently to ease tensions.
This current wave of violence, which a few are calling “the third intifada” or Palestinian uprising is characterized by stabbing attacks, often by teenage perpetrators.
Hebron, home to a shrine known to Jews as Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque, has 200,000 Palestinian residents.
The Palestinians have submitted a file of Israeli violations to the worldwide Criminal Court (ICC), he said.
Palestinian officials confirmed the man’s death, naming him as Malik Sharif, 25, of Hebron.
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On Tuesday, the Israeli army attempted to storm a number of schools in the area, but the administrations stopped them.
