Police have said Ibrahim al-Akri drove his minivan into a train platform then attacked bystanders.
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An Israeli man was moderately wounded on Thursday, after a Palestinian opened fire on him from a moving auto near the Hizma checkpoint outside of Jerusalem.
A senior United Nations official expressed concern Wednesday over Israel’s failure to bring to justice those behind an arson attack that killed three members of a Palestinian family, including a baby.
It said in a statement that the detainees were being questioned over the July 31 firebombing in the West Bank village of Duma, located near the Jordan Valley and close to wildcat Jewish settlements. The couple’s four-year-old son was the sole survivor from the immediate family.
According to Israeli media, the suspects are hard-line young settlers, belonging to the so-called “hilltop youths”, groups of settlers youths who were accused in recent years of thousands of cases of vandalism and arson attacks on mosques, churches, and Palestinian property. The rest died in clashes with Israeli security forces.
The Palestinian prime minister on Wednesday demanded that Israel unconditionally return the bodies of Palestinians recently killed by Israeli forces, accusing it of violating the worldwide law.
Ma’moun Raed al-Khatib, 16, of the Douha suburb of Bethlehem, was shot and killed by an IDF soldier on guard at the Gush Etzion junction as he tried to stab another IDF officer with a knife.
A wave of violence erupted on October 1 and has so far claimed the lives of more than 120 people, including 104 Palestinians and 17 Israelis.
Commenting on these violations, the Union of Palestinian Radios and TV Stations said that the Israeli authorities are trying to suppress the Palestinian voices that document the daily Israeli aggression against the Palestinians. It says one soldier and a civilian were wounded in the attack Thursday.
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Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians, who decried the move, said the labeling policy has an echo of Nazi Germany policies that branded European Jews and their storefronts with the yellow Star of David, the New York Times reported last month.
