Israel denied Jerusalem residency Thursday to the relatives of a Palestinian man who shot at police officers in Jerusalem, wounding two before he was killed by security forces, police said.
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Biden criticized the Palestinians for failing to condemn the stabbing, after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ political party posted a statement online praising the stabber.
The White House has said Biden will not be pursuing any major new peace initiatives during his visit despite the wave of violence. Heightened security continues in Jerusalem. The assailant, a Palestinian man, was shot and killed after he stabbed 11 people in the Jaffa port area of Tel Aviv.
Two of the three Palestinians who carried out the attacks did not have permits to be Israel.
Knife used the yesterday’s stabbing attack in Jaffa where American tourist Taylor Force was killed.
A two-state solution long seen as the most internationally acceptable outcome envisages a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, lands Israel captured in a 1967 war, and an Israeli state that absorbs some of the settlements Israel built on occupied land in return for mutually agreed land swaps.
Biden’s meeting with Netanyahu comes at a time of heightened tension in the U.S.-Israeli relationship following the historic nuclear accord with Iran.
The woman was said to be around 50 years old and from east Jerusalem, where the Damascus Gate is also located.
Biden has held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Terrorism is a personal issue for Avni, an Israeli businessman whose father, Richard Lakin, 73, died from gunshot and stab wounds he suffered during a Palestinian terrorist attack in October 2015 on a No. 78 bus in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatizv neighborhood. The Israeli fled the scene and police are searching for him.
As part of moves to curb the violence, Israel’s government decided on Wednesday “to complete immediately construction of the barrier around Jerusalem and build a new stretch” in a sector near the West Bank hotspot of Hebron, according to a government statement.
During that same period attacks by Palestinians have left at least 28 Israelis dead.
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“That is why we have done more to bolster Israel’s security than any other administration in history”.
