Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians who stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, the army says, the latest attack in 12 weeks of heightened violence.
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The surge in violence has been fuelled 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.
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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has voiced concern over “extrajudicial killing” of Palestinians by Israeli forces.
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In 2013, faced with worldwide pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vetoed construction of some 1,200 homes there but Peace Now said the housing ministry has hired architects to prepare fresh blueprints.
“This planning, which contradicts any possible commitment to a two-state solution, continues”, said Monday’s report, although it added that the plans could be years from realisation.
“They must be approved by the minister of defense and then go through the approval process of the planning authority”, the report said. The global community, including the US, rejects settlements as illegal or illegitimate, saying they undermine the goal of establishing a Palestinian state living in peace next to Israel. Israeli leaders have been upset over the EU’s recent decision to require labels on imported products made in West Bank settlements.
It later annexed east Jerusalem in a move never recognised by the worldwide community.
Later in Jerusalem, police forces fired tear gas to disperse several dozen protesters who were demanding that Israel hand over the bodies of Palestinians killed in attacks or during clashes with Israeli troops.
Israel has returned the bodies of three more Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israeli targets, the Palestinian news agency Maan reported Tuesday.
The Israeli military said a Palestinian drove his vehicle into a group of soldiers, injuring one of them, on a road by the village of Hawara, near the West Bank city of Nablus.
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The bill also comes at a time of heightened tension between Israelis and Palestinians and frequent attacks, of which two occurred Sunday.
