Israeli forces have killed 98 Palestinians, of whom 59 were identified by Israel as assailants or caught on camera carrying out assaults, while most others were killed in clashes with police or the military.
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The bloodshed was the latest incident in over two months of nearly daily Palestinian attacks.
Young Jewish men from wildcat settlement outposts in the West Bank and known as the “hilltop youth” have been blamed for violence and vandalism targeting Palestinians, Christian holy sites and even Israeli military property.
Hours subsequent to the attack in Hebron, before troops shot his assailant dead a soldier was stabbed and wounded near Ramallah, the military said.
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.
In the meantime, 20 Israelis were killed in a series of shooting and stabbing attacks carried out by Palestinians in Israel, east Jerusalem and the West Bank to protest increasing Israeli measures against al-Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem.
The alleged attacks left 22 Israelis dead and 215 injured, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom paramedic service.
A file picture taken on July 31, 2015, shows Palestinians looking at the damage as they stand in the Dawabsheh family’s house, which was set on fire by settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Duma.
The army said its forces fired at one man who entered its no-go zone close to the border fence but did not specify the type of fire. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired a large number of live fire on the two Palestinian.
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.
“They are exploiting the situation”, Khaled Fouda, the governor of Egypt’s South Sinai region, said in a recent TV interview, referring to the Israelis. The Israeli marketing crusade will likely rile Egypt, one of Israel’s few allies within the Arab world, & which relies upon heavily on tourism. Discouragement rooted in decades of Israeli occupation has been attributed by the Palestinian leaders.
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On Friday, Palestinian security forces prevented a protest against Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas from taking place in Ramallah.
