On Thursday, Israeli forces had fatally shot four other Palestinians whom Tel Aviv claimed had carried out two separate stabbing attacks in the West Bank.
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“A large number of soldiers came about 2:30 am (0030 GMT), blowing open the locks, breaking into three buildings and banning the university guards from approaching”, Ghassan Khatib, vice president of Birzeit University, told AFP.
A spokeswoman said the attack occurred in the north of the Jordan Valley.
Two pro-Palestinian activists were secretly videotaped conspiring to turn in to authorities a Palestinian land broker interested in selling West Bank property to Jews – a crime punishable by death under Palestinian Authority law.
Recently Israel’s Education Ministry has disqualified a novel that describes a love story between an Israeli Jew woman and a Palestinian Muslim man from use by high schools around the country.
The Israel Defense Forces said the soldiers had “thwarted the attack and shot the assailants”. “But before it kills them, they get beat up a lot”.
They are set to be buried later in the village of Sair, close to Hebron, according to Palestinian sources.
The bloodshed has raised fear of wider escalation a decade after the last Palestinian uprising, or intifada, subsided.
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the video footage, broadcast by a prominent Israeli current affairs show, “unmasked radicals” whose “hatred for settlements has pushed them over the edge to the point of delivering innocents for torture and execution”.
“The AHA commits itself to monitoring Israeli actions restricting the right to education in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”, the resolution ended.
Several Palestinians have also been killed in clashes during funerals over the past months.
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Israel often retains the bodies of Palestinians killed during attacks, a measure that has drawn criticism from rights groups as well as Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
