Israeli troops on Saturday razed the West Bank homes of four Palestinians accused of attacking Israelis, pressing ahead with a controversial policy of punitive demolitions after weeks of deadly unrest.
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The military carried out the demolition orders after clearance from the supreme court. Two other passengers, a woman and a 16-year-old male, were lightly and moderately wounded, and were rushed to Soroka Medical Center, Be’er Sheva, along with three girls in the vehicle who were suffering from shock. “We will find the despicable murderers and bring them to justice as we have in the past”, he said in a statement.
“It’s not that Israelis and Palestinians don’t want peace but that the conventional approach has had setbacks”, Blair told the Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem on Friday.
9 letter was another fabrication by him and his “Al-Nabka” group to place blame for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Israel.
Hebron, the largest West Bank city, has been a particular flashpoint in the current round of Israeli-Palestinian violence. The man’s wife, three young daughters and 16-year old son who were also in the van survived the attack.
At the funeral for the two shooting victims on Saturday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin compared the assault with the Friday attacks that killed 129 people in Paris.
The EU’s new differentiation strategy is about separating the democratic and internationally recognized Israel within the 1967 borders from what is increasingly referred to by Peter Beinart and others as the non-democratic and non-recognized Israel, which is the occupation, primarily of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), but also of the Golan Heights.
While Netanyahu has flip-flopped on the two-state goal, saying earlier this year that it wouldn’t happen on his watch, then recommitting to it last week in Washington, Blair indicated that he thought Netanyahu did believe in it and saw that the alternatives would be worse for Israel and the Palestinians.
Violence since the start of October has killed 81 people on the Palestinian side – including one Arab Israeli – and 12 Israelis.
Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat said that the time has come to embody the independence of the State of Palestine on the ground “as a political and a legal entitlement and a human right”.
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Those visitors include many from the growing number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank – territory that Palestinians envision as part of a future independent state. Dalia Kerstein, director of the Hamoked NGO which filed the appeals against the demolitions, said she had expected the families to be given 48 hours to leave.
