The next day, Israel was rocked by the release of a video clip from a far-right Jewish wedding, in which the racist revelers celebrated the murder of Ali Dawabshe, an 18-month-old Palestinian baby whose home was firebombed by suspected Jewish terrorists in July.
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Palestinian eyewitnesses said that Mahdeya Hammad is a mother of four children and was killed while driving her auto in an area where dozens of Palestinian young men and Israeli soldiers were clashing.
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Israeli police says officers have shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab them in Jerusalem.
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But Perkins – who survived hunkered down inside a closet with her husband – said she was happy just to be alive. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said the victims were a 19-year-old female and two 22-year-old males.
Palestinian youth clashed with Israeli security forces near the West Bank city of Bethlehem Friday.
The video emerged as Israeli forces killed four Palestinian assailants in separate incidents in the West Bank on Thursday.
In the second incident, the military said troops shot at Palestinians attempting to breach the Gaza Strip’s border fence with Israel.
Among the drivers of the bloodshed was a July 31 arson attack by suspected Jewish zealots that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, and Israel’s failure to crack the case.
The surge in violence since October has been fueled by Palestinians’ frustration over Israel’s 48-year occupation of land they seek for an independent state and the expansion of settlements in those territories which were captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. Palestinian news outlet Al Watan Voice identified the man as 22-year-old Hani Rafiq Wahdan.
Israeli police said they were investigating whether the actions at the wedding, which Channel 10 says took place in Jerusalem last week, constitute an incitement to violence.
Israeli officials described the attack as “Jewish terrorism”, the Daily Mail reports.
The video, broadcast by an Israeli news programme, has spread online and drawn strong condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the images “shocking” and called participants “a danger to Israeli society”.
No Israeli casualties were reported.
At least nine others were injured in the clashes, a Gaza Health Ministry spokesman said.
Police have said Palestinian citizens of Israel traveling to Syria to fight for ISIS represent “a serious threat to Israel”.
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One Israeli politician questioned the timing of the video’s release amid suggestions that charges are imminent – and accusations from some of the detainees’ lawyers they were tortured to extract confessions.
