I know that yesterday, a soldier was killed in the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family, and those who were wounded, their families.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry has denounced as “acts of terrorism” a wave of Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis, on a visit to Jerusalem.
Security camera footage from the scene shows the two girls in headscarves hopping around with objects in their hands and making stabbing motions toward bystanders before an armed police officer arrives and shoots them down. The Israeli Defense Forces stated on Twitter in that an 80-year-old & a 27-year-old have been injured & evacuated for emergency remedy following the attack in central Jerusalem. Police officers stated both attackers have been of their teens; info on their conditions wasn’t instantly out there.
Amid an ongoing wave of Palestinian attacks on Israel, US Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to “calm things down a little bit”.
In more than two months, 19 Israelis have been killed, mostly in stabbings, while 89 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire.
Kerry touched down amid a new rash of deadly attacks that have dampened any lingering hopes of renewed peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians during the Obama administration’s final year.
The violence continued as Kerry arrived on Tuesday, when a Palestinian rammed a vehicle into Israeli troops at a junction south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, wounding four before being shot.
Reportedly, the USA was pushing for more meaningful gestures, such as increasing the Palestinians’ responsibilities in the so-called Area C that constitutes around 60% of the West Bank and is under exclusive Israeli control, both security and civilian.
At the same time, he said he would speak with the Israeli leader about how “to push back against terrorism, to push back against senseless violence, and to find a way forward to restore calm and begin to provide opportunities”.
In recent months, Israeli officials have indicated plans to improve economic and overall living conditions for Palestinians, including infrastructure projects such as the agreement signed last week to allow long-awaited 3G cellular network in the West Bank and Gaza.
Two Palestinian girls, one aged 14 and the other 16, used scissors to stab and slightly wound a 70-year-old man, who turned out to be Palestinian, not Israeli.
Ramallah, Nov. 24 (BNA): The three Palestinian Arabic dailies focused their Tuesday issue on the Israeli forces’ shooting and killing of three Palestinians in separate incidents in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Some 16 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean, have also died. Of them, 57 are said by Israel to be attackers and the rest were killed in clashes with security forces.
The bloodshed has been driven in part by Muslim agitation over stepped-up Jewish visits to East Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque compound as well as by long-deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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Abbas also handed Kerry a file on incitement by Israel against the Palestinian people and leadership, Erekat said.
