On the Gaza border, three Palestinians were moderately wounded by small calibre bullets during clashes with Israeli forces Sunday after they tried to breach the border fence, Gaza medics and the Israeli army said.
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Israeli news websites posted security camera footage that shows Zerhom, crawling on the floor and a security guard shooting him.
But in Beersheba, an attacker who police said was a Bedouin citizen of Israel entered the heavily guarded station armed with a pistol on Sunday and shot dead a soldier before snatching his rifle and opening fire on the crowd, wounding nine people.
Only in one case was a gun also used in these so-called “lone-wolf” attacks, which have killed five Israelis and have ended with most of the alleged Palestinian attackers being shot by police, 13 of whom were killed as a result.
They told police they meant to repaint the shrine after the fire.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not offer any concessions to the Palestinians during his scheduled meeting in Berlin later this week with US Secretary of State John Kerry, a senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office said Sunday night.
It is understood that the attackers are believed to be Palestinians, while the police spokeswoman added that one attacker had been killed in the incident.
Israel has further tightened security around the country, highlighted by the construction of a barrier separating Jewish and Arab neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem.
Hebron witnessed the killing of another Palestinian teenager, Saturday, 17-year-old Bayan Ayman Abd al-Hadi al-Esseili.
Also taking place on Sunday, the Israeli military has removed at least 30 Jews, the AP reports who “descended upon the Joseph’s Tomb compound in Nablus, a site revered by Jews as the tomb of the biblical figure Joseph”.
A 13-YEAR old boy at the centre of a diplomatic row after he was thought executed by the IOF has reportedly been relocated from an Israeli hospital to what the Israeli press has called a “detention facility”. Jews are allowed to visit but not pray there to avoid provoking tensions, and Netanyahu has said repeatedly he has no intention of changing the rules.
Eight Israelis and more than 40 Palestinians, including assailants have been killed in the violence. The violence comes at a time when a possibility of partition of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean into two States – Palestine alongside Israel – is fading.
Palestinians in Jerusalem, more than a third of the city’s population, have awoken to a new reality: Israeli troops are encircling Arab neighborhoods, blocking roads with concrete cubes the size of washing machines and ordering a few of those leaving on foot to lift their shirts to show they are not carrying knives.
Israel opposed the Palestinian appeal, with Mr Danon saying “an intervention would violate the decade long status quo”.
There have also been fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian protestors across the West Bank.
In graphic video from the scene, the Eritrean asylum seeker can be seen lying on the ground in a pool of blood, while a mob around him gathers, throwing a bench at him and kicking him.
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The bodies of 15 slain Palestinians have been withheld by the IOA, including those of 11 Jerusalemites and four West Bankers.
