The Israeli government is preparing to deploy a few 70 reserve battalions in the West Bank next year at a cost of $77 million, in addition to the four reserve battalions already called up, in anticipation that the ongoing unrest will last for “many months”.
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Massive security mechanisms have been put in place like checkpoints and concrete barriers in Arab areas of east Jerusalem. Still, authorities have failed to halt the spontaneous attacks. Hours later, three were killed when a Palestinian motorist opened fire on a line of cars stuck in traffic in the West Bank.
Ezra Schwartz, 18, of the Boston suburb of Sharon, was reportedly returning from visiting a memorial to the three young people kidnapped and killed in 2014 when he was ambushed near the settlement of Alon Shvut.
Police said one Israeli was killed by gunfire.
“He was all slashed and bloody”. We were in shock.
He described a dramatic standoff, with worshippers standing against the closed shop door as the assailant tried to force his way in.
Police identified the assailant in the Tel Aviv stabbing as a father of five from the village of Dura in the southern West Bank. And about the Tel Aviv attack, it mentioned only that “two people” – meaning two Jews – “were killed”, with the passive voice covering up the Palestinian identity of the attacker. “This thing is part of the routine of our lives”, Huldai told Israeli Channel 2 TV.
In one of the single deadliest days in the two-month surge of Palestinian violence, a Palestinian gunman in a auto shot at other cars outside the settlement near Jerusalem and deliberately rammed into other vehicles.
Two Israelis were stabbed to death by a Palestinian man Thursday at an office complex in Tel Aviv.
The status quo on the major religious site in Jerusalem that houses the El Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, known as Haram-Al Sharif to Muslims and the Temple Mount to Jews, must be maintained, he said, and Israel must address the apparent impunity for settler violence against Palestinians.
The Palestinians, who lack citizenship and wish to establish a Palestinian state, may also be driven by pessimism as the last round of talks to end the conflict ended in April 2014 without results, and as leaders of both sides blame each other for responsibility of the increasing violence.
“Al-Khalil radio station has repeatedly broadcast content which promotes and encourages terror and acts of violence against Israeli civilians and security forces”, the army said in a statement. Ezra was spending his gap year studying in Israel. Israeli forces arrested the attacker.
Antoine Shalhat, a researcher in Israeli affairs, told the news agency yesterday that: “Israeli companies are moving their businesses to Israel to circumvent the European Union decision to avoid European Union labelling”.
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Also Thursday, Israeli Maj. The officer was sentenced Wednesday. The agreement will not enable 4G service for Palestinians, nor will it cover the Gaza Strip.
