Israel Public Radio reported that two Palestinian teenagers stabbed by knives two Israelis at Rami Levi Mall in the settlement of Sha’ar Benjamin east of Ramallah, and wounded them, one was critically wounded.
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Two officers were lightly wounded after being stabbed in the upper body and taken to hospital. Paramedics treated the alleged assailants at the scene before they were taken to the hospital, the IDF said. The soldiers then shot him dead.
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“The soldiers responded to the immediate threat and fired towards the assailant, resulting in his death”.
A policeman was investigated last year after he shot a 16-year-old Palestinian girl armed with scissors even though she had already been knocked to the ground.
At the same time, 175 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, most while carrying out attacks but others during clashes and demonstrations.
There are now 600 Palestinians held in administrative detention, according to the Israeli Prison Service.
Zomlot, however, said the Palestinians insisted on their call for a United Nations resolution against Israeli settlement building ahead of any renewed peace process.
“It says, ‘We shall hold an worldwide conference but, if it doesn’t succeed, we are deciding in advance what the outcome will be – we shall recognise a Palestinian state, ‘” he told reporters during a visit to Berlin. Israel says young Palestinians are being incited to violence by their leaders and by Islamist groups calling for Israel’s destruction.
In an exclusive interview for PNN, Nasser Abu Baker, the chairman for the Palestinian journalists syndicate, stated that their local campaign to release the 3 months hunger-striking Palestinian journalist Mohammad al-Qiq gained an worldwide voice in the past few weeks due to his worsening health conditions.
Medics said the two had sustained stab wounds to their torsos.
Briefing the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. envoy on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, said he was concerned the bloodshed may be entering “a new troubling phase”.
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“The conflict has now arrived at a pivotal point”, he said. “Such acts only contribute to tensions and violence”, he said.
