It said the attack early Friday occurred in Hebron, a frequent flashpoint and the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank where some 850 Israelis live in heavily-guarded enclaves surrounded by tens of thousands of Palestinians. In all, four Israelis were hurt. These settlers have carried out hundreds of so-called “price tag” attacks – targeting Palestinian mosques, churches and olive groves with little to no consequences.
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While Trump wouldn’t say whether he was referring to the Israelis or the Palestinians, he said the chances for a lasting peace rest with Israel.
Israel’s tourism minister, Yariv Levin, said his country is offering two types of trips to Russians – a Sinai-like “sea and sun” vacation in the Red Sea resort town of Eilat, which borders the Egyptian peninsula, and packages that include stops in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and at the Dead Sea.
A police announcement on Thursday that several “youths belonging to a Jewish terror group” were in custody stirred speculation of a breakthrough in the killing of three members of the Dawabsheh family, which raised Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
Israeli authorities said today that they had arrested a number of alleged Jewish extremists over the firebombing of a Palestinian home that killed a toddler and his parents in an attack that drew global condemnation. They did not say what rank he held in the PA’s security forces.
The Jerusalem District Court sentenced Gabai to two years in prison for the arson, ten months for posting incitement on Facebook, and two more months for the possession of a knife.
Palestinian anger over the Duma attack has been a factor fuelling a wave of street assaults on Israelis that erupted on October 1. At least 102 Palestinians have been killed, including 67 said by Israel to be attackers.
She said Jerusalem would appeal to Russians who normally go to Turkey for its history and Christian holy sites. The military identified the man as Raeb Ahmed Muhammad Alivi, in his late 30s. He was arrested days after the attack.
The Jewish state faces mounting pressure to bring to justice the perpetrators of the July attack in the occupied West Bank, with a United Nations envoy expressing concern over the “slow progress” in the probe. Their four young children in the back of the vehicle escaped unharmed.
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“A lot will have to do with Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make the deal, whether or not Israel’s willing to sacrifice certain things”, Trump said.
