Palestinians argue that Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have driven them from their homes and made them targets of Israeli violence.
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Family and friends of Israeli Dafna Meir attend her funeral in a cemetery in Jerusalem Monday, Jan. 18, 2016.
The wave of Palestinian violence, now in its fourth month, has been fuelled by various factors including frustration over the 2014 collapse of peace talks and the growth of Jewish settlements on land Palestinians seek for a future state.
There was no damage caused to the foetus, Ruvio said, identifying the woman as Michal Froman.
Overall in 2015, Israeli soldiers or settlers shot and killed 180 Palestinians, including unarmed protesters, bystanders and alleged attackers.
Unrest has since spread throughout the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, and Palestinian communities in Israel.
The West Bank sees Palestinians governed by an entirely different set of laws than their Israeli counterparts, with the former being subject to Israeli military law and the latter to Israeli civil law.
On Sunday, a mother-of-six was killed in her home at the settlement of Otniel, while a pregnant woman was wounded in Tekoa on Monday.
Ahead of Monday’s EU meeting, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with several top foreign ministry officials spoke with leaders from several European countries, including those of Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary and the Czech Republic, in an effort to block the adoption of the text.
“Settlement businesses unavoidably contribute to Israeli policies that dispossess and harshly discriminate against Palestinians, while profiting from Israel’s theft of Palestinian land and other resources”, said Arvind Ganesan, the director of the business and human rights division of HRW.
HonestReporting, a watchdog group whose self-described mission is “defending Israel from media bias”, provided a number of examples to back up its claim, first pointing to those outlets that did, in fact, mention the stabbing attack against 38-year-old Dafna Meir at her house in Otniel, in Judea and Samaria. “Lately, I have had a lot of objections in light of the security situation, thoughts about what is necessary and what is unnecessary to do, about fears, about my husband and children”, she wrote, according to a translation by the Jerusalem Post.
Since the start of October, some 162 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, under the pretext of stabbing operatives or alleged attempts.
“Now you won’t escort me to my wedding”.
Israel’s government has come under heavy pressure over the spate of attacks, and Sunday’s killing was likely to further raise tensions.
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‘Security measures alone can not stop the cycle of violence, ‘ ministers said, calling for ‘a fundamental change of policy by Israel with regard to the occupied Palestinian territory’.
