Israel’s military says two Palestinians attacked a soldier with knives in the West Bank, wounding him before forces shot and killed them.
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In addition, an American student was killed in a Palestinian attack and an Eritrean migrant was shot dead by an Israeli security guard after he was mistakenly identified as an attacker.
Israel says it still doesn’t have enough evidence to charge suspects in the case of an arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents. While Trump wouldn’t say whether he was referring to the Israelis or the Palestinians, he said the chances for a lasting peace rest with Israel.
He said they were hurt by shelling, but the army said its forces only fired at one man who entered the no-go zone close to the border fence.
The Israeli media, meanwhile, reported that a 20-year-old Israeli soldier was critically wounded after he was stabbed by a Palestinian young man near the settlement of Nowa Tsuf, north of Ramallah.
Hours earlier, a Palestinian stabbed a soldier in the neck during a security inspection near the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, the military said.
Several alleged Jewish extremists were arrested Thursday in Israel in connection with the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank in which a toddler and his parents were killed last July.
On July 31, a large fire broke out at Riham’s home when extremist Israeli settlers threw firebombs and Molotov cocktails into the house in the town of Duma, located 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian security sources identified him as 19-year-old Anas Basam Hamad from near Ofra.
Palestinians have repeatedly claimed that Israel’s delay in making arrests in the arson reflected what they see as an unfair justice system that moves swiftly in finding Palestinian suspects in violence.
Palestinian anger over the attack in Duma village has been a factor fuelling a wave of street assaults since October 1.
More than half of the Palestinians have been assailants, while others have been shot dead by Israeli security forces during clashes.
Over the same period, 4,800 Palestinians have been injured as a result of life ammunition and rubber bullets, the ministry added. These settlers, who live in Jewish-only settlements protected by the Israeli military and some unofficial outposts, have seized Palestinian land and resources to build their communities.
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Palestinians are frustrated by the failure of decades of peace talks and the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, with many also losing faith in their own leadership.
