Israel’s national broadcaster on Tuesday said Palestinian authorities had prevented a bomb attack on Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, a report suggesting the strength of security ties despite public feuding over a two-month wave of unrest.
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Early on the morning of July 2 last year, three Israelis abducted 16-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir from near his home in East Jerusalem, then drove him to a forest, beat him unconscious, and burned him alive.
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers and police deployed in an east Jerusalem neighbourhood Wednesday ahead of the planned demolition of a home of a Palestinian who carried out an attack a year ago.
The incidents came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas shared a rare handshake at a global climate conference in Paris, but no substantial talks were reported.
Most of the attackers have been young Palestinians in their late teens or 20s.
Eighteen Israelis have been killed in the attacks.
Israel says the vast majority were shot dead after being implicated in violence, which has included 82 knife attacks and attempted knife attacks, 30 shootings and 12 auto rammings. The Palestinians say the violence is rooted in frustration over a lack of hope for obtaining independence.
Yitzhak Gabai, 23, was found guilty at the Jerusalem District Court of the November 2014 attack on the Max Hayne Hand-in-Hand school, where a first-grade classroom was badly damaged and slogans in Hebrew reading “Death to Arabs” and “There’s no coexistence with cancer” were scrawled on the walls.
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Gabai’s accomplices, Nahman and Shlomo Twitto, 19 and 21, have already been sentenced to two and two-and-a-half-years in prison respectively. The three men set fire to a classroom.
