Pouilly said that the “wave of stabbings, shootings, and car-rammings” which “continues to kill and injure Israelis” is “unacceptable”, but that the response from the IDF “has resulted in alleged attackers, protesters, and even bystanders being killed and injured”.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians who tried to ram them with their cars during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Israeli army and police and Palestinian medical sources said.
Palestinian camp activist Raed Hamdan identified the two as Ahmad Jahajha, a 21-year-old resident of the Qalandia camp, and Hikmat Hamdan, 29, from the nearby town of el-Bireh.
One U.S. citizen and 19 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks.
Although the survey found widespread support among Palestinians for the violence, the attacks have been carried out by individuals and are not part of a widespread uprising like the two intifadas of the late 1980s and early 2000s.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), 85 percent of Palestinians who were killed by Israeli troops since the beginning of violence were “extra-judicially executed”.
Palestinians wait to be checked by Israeli soldiers patrolling the streets of the West Bank city of Hebron on December 15, 2015.
Four other Palestinians were injured, the ministry said.
“Whoever succeeded in killing, this is a big thing, and whoever [was killed but] succeeded in at least scaring the Israeli pedestrian is also a martyr”, Zaki said.
At the United Nations in NY, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, told reporters that envoys of the so-called Quartet of Mideast mediators are now in the region for “substantive meetings” with both Israeli and Palestinian leaders. A municipality spokeswoman described the move as a “technical step” in a project approved two years ago.
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“What a suffering it is, to once again see our beloved Holy Land caught in the vicious cycle of bloody violence”, he said.
