In the last two months Palestinians have killed 14 Israelis, mainly in stabbing attacks, while 81 Palestinians have been killed, including 51 said by Israel to have been involved in assaults. The Israeli military said troops shot a man at the hospital while they were there to arrest a suspect in a stabbing attack.
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The demolitions in Nablus prompted clashes between protesters and the Israeli army in which nine Palestinians were wounded, two of them by live ammunition, Palestinian medical sources said.
Hassan Jihad al-Baw, 23, was shot in the heart during clashes in Halhul, near Hebron.
In less than a month, some 20 young Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and one by a settler over alleged attacks.
Hebron, the largest West Bank city, has been a particular flashpoint in the current round of violence.
That same day, 22-year-old Issa al-Shalalda, from the village of Sair near Hebron, died from wounds he sustained a day earlier after being shot during confrontations with Israeli forces.
But Kifah Al Sharif, a member of the hospital’s board of directors, and hospital staffers said he was shot for no reason when he emerged from a bathroom.
The home of Mouad Hamed, accused of killing Malachi Rosenfeld, was destroyed in a controlled explosion that also damaged at least two neighboring houses, an AFP photographer said.
Other reports said a medic was reportedly shot in the ear during a protest near al-Azza refugee camp in the city of Bethlehem.
Osama Al-Najar, the Palestinian Health ministry spokesman, said a second Palestinian was killed Friday in clashes with Israeli military, near the city of Ramallah.
The weeks of violence have led to renewed calls for a meaningful peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
The newspaper also said that intelligence officials “are pessimistic about the long-range situation”, concluding that “the mechanism of constraints that Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) imposed, and that kept the West Bank more or less stable for a decade, is unraveling”.
The majority of British Jews do not believe Israel’s efforts to make peace with the Palestinians are working, a new poll shows.
The European Union announced at a meeting in Brussels this week that it considers settlements built on territories occupied by Israel in 1967, comprising the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, which were captured from Syria, to be illegal under worldwide law. The Gaza health ministry said 17 rock-throwers were hurt from Israeli retaliatory fire.
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The Israeli military added that those killed were father and son.
