Several hundred Jewish settlers live in fortified enclaves in the city, amid tens of thousands of Palestinians.
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The 40-year-old father and 18-year-old son, Yaakov and Netanel Litman, were ambushed and shot dead as they drove near the Jewish settlement of Otniel, south of Hebron, in the bloodiest attack on Israelis in almost a month.
A few of the Israeli comments regarding the French attack were coarse. One portrays Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helping an ISIS terrorist near the Eiffel Tower aim his machine gun.
This is what we’re seeing now with the latest wave of terrorism, Marcus said. In the recording, a man’s voice can be heard saying they have a passenger wounded in the head and that an ambulance from the Palestinian Red Crescent had arrived at the scene but sped away, leaving them there. His wife, three daughters and another son had minor injuries.
The experts welcomed the reported clarification by Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to the effect that Israeli security forces are prohibited from firing at a suspected assailant unless an immediate danger to human life can not otherwise be prevented and that the use of fire must be proportional to the threat.
“Next time we will not come to talk”. That same NY Times piece on the Old City stabbings included, “In response to the attack, Islamic Jihad said in a statement: “We bless this operation in Jerusalem and confirm that Israel is paying the price of its aggressive occupation and the resistance will continue and increase”.
The surge in violence across Israel, Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been fueled in part by a dispute over access to a site in Jerusalem holy to both Muslims and Jews.
Palestinian Media Watch, the media monitoring group that initially translated the article, also highlighted an image equating Israel with ISIS that was posted Saturday on the official Facebook page of Fatah, the political party headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Palestinians say the violence is due to a lack of hope for gaining independence.
Israel faces acts of terror rooted in radical Islam daily – including insidious knife attack campaign now going on in Israel’s streets.
Demolishing the homes of family members of Palestinians who have attacked Israeli forces and civilians is an Israeli government policy that was established with the aim of deterring future attacks.
Israeli military spokesman Peter Lerner spoke of a third death on Twitter, but Palestinian hospital sources had not confirmed it.
Since 1 June 2014, the Israeli authorities have demolished, sealed or destroyed with explosives 16 structures, displacing 90 Palestinians, including 51 children, according to UN. And earlier Friday, a Palestinian died of wounds sustained in clashes the previous day.
Uniting efforts behind the hashtag #SolidarityWaveBDS, the Palestinian BDS national committee called for activists to take “international solidarity with the Palestinian popular resistance to the next level”.
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One said: “People will no longer tolerate it and you will pay the consequences of your acts”.
