France hosted an worldwide meeting in Paris in June attended by more than two dozen Western and Arab countries to try to come up with a new strategy for Mideast peace and revive Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which have been all but dead for over two years.
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“Responding to the immediate threat, forces fired at the assailant, resulting in his death”.
Following a series of attacks over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces had moved an additional infantry battalion to the Hebron area.
“What we have seen and what has taken place is an incitement from the Palestinian authority calling for Palestinians and Arabs to carry out attacks”, Rosenfeld said. Ultimately, it is the Israelis and the Palestinians who must live side by side.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the United Nations refugee summit in NY on Monday night, Mr Ayrault said: “This week must be a moment of political mobilisation that we can reach that goal.”His comments came less than two weeks after the Russian Foreign Ministry said Palestinian and Israeli leaders had agreed “in principle” to peace talks in Moscow”. Later Monday evening, while conducting weapons searches in Bethlehem, the IDF found and seized weapons and nearly $35,000 in New Israeli Shekels. Soldiers opened fire and killed the attacker. A Palestinian public opinion survey last June found support for knife attacks on the decline and that about half of respondents believed that the wave of violence was over.
“The decrease was due to the fact that we have heightened police operations and IDF operations”, Rosenfeld said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the potential for violence could rise as the Jewish high holidays approach again.
“It pains me that this past decade has been 10 years lost to peace, 10 years to illegal settlement expansion, 10 years lost to internal Palestinian divisions”, he said. In June, a teenager from the same village killed a 13-year-old Israeli girl from Kiryat Arba while she was sleeping in her bed. “It’s quite probable that (attacks) will happen during the Jewish holidays”, Brom added.
“Surely Israelis and Palestinians will be better off if Palestinians reject incitement and recognize the legitimacy of Israel …(and if) Israel recognizes that it can not permanently occupy and settle Palestinian land”, Obama said.
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Jamal Dajani, director of communications for the Palestinian Authority accused the soldiers of shooting to kill even in cases where that was not warranted. “So, there is a question to the Israeli military about whether there were attacks, if these attacks could have been prevented or contained without extra-judicially killing the perpetrator and how many Palestinians have been killed by mistake?”
