Incitement-fueled violence against Israelis continued Friday as three teenagers were shot in two separate attacks in Hebron.
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A wave of tension and violent confrontations broke out in early October allover the Palestinian territories between Israel and the Palestinians. In October, he said that Israel had “executed” a teen terrorist while the terrorist was recovering in an Israeli hospital. Medics said a Palestinian was killed.
There were also sporadic clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday following the weekly Muslim prayers, where one protester was wounded in the head by a rubber bullet.
The security guard then shot and wounded the woman, an Israeli military spokesperson said. Searches for the assailants were underway. The man was only lightly injured in the attack and was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
The Israeli military said Qawasmi was armed with a knife and was shot when he approached a settler with the intent to attack.
Around 4,000 Jewish worshippers were visiting Hebron on Friday and Saturday as part of a religious pilgrimage centred around the biblical matriarch Sarah, who according to tradition was buried in a field which eventually became part of the city Hebron.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the shooting.
Human rights groups in Hebron have questioned the apparent Israeli policy of shooting to kill.
Zaid said the Israeli forces ordered him to leave the area and he returned to the other side of the checkpoint.
Sharawi’s son Ayoub, 52, denied his mother, who started driving in her 50s, meant to harm anyone. They alleged she did not intend to attack the soldiers.
On the Gaza-Israel border, a Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire in a confrontation between stone-throwers and Israeli troops, Gaza health officials said.
The latest violence came after almost two months of Israeli-Palestinian confrontations.
Briefing his cabinet before setting off for Washington, where he will be hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday, Netanyahu alluded to Palestinian statehood negotiations stalled since mid-2014 amid feuds over the West Bank settlements and the status of Jerusalem and Islamist Hamas-controlled Gaza.
And it includes high-production-value videos that counter Israeli perceptions of global moves taken by the Palestinian Authority in recent years, such as explaining in Hebrew that “the appeal to the UN” for recognition of a state of Palestine “was never meant to isolate Israel or hurt its legitimacy, but to emphasize the illegitimacy of the occupation that began in 1967 in order to end it”. Palestinians say the violence is rooted in a lack of hope for gaining independence after years of failed peace efforts.
Israeli troops stationed outside Hebron shot and seriously injured the woman, whose husband died in clashes with Israeli troops in the 1980s. In the unrest that erupted in mid-September, most Palestinian assaults on Israelis so far have been stabbing attacks.
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Should we just shut our ears, close our eyes and ignore the fact that Abbas is explicitly justifying terrorism and propagating the false narrative that Palestinians need to carry out vicious attacks because the Jews are “defiling with their filthy feet” Islamic and Christian holy sites to which Israel is actually guaranteeing free and open access?
