Israeli police say a Palestinian attacker rammed his vehicle into a group of Israelis standing at a hitchhiking station, wounding four of them before he was shot dead by paramilitary officers.
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Wielding a knife from his pulpit in a sermon streamed on the Iternet last month, Palestinian Sheikh Muhammad Salakh referred to as for followers to take up butcher knives & attack Israelis. So as you read here what Abbas actually said keep in mind that they were uttered at the very time the Palestinians are waging yet another wave of terrorist violence against Israel.
Ashrawi was the second Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces on Friday.
As a gesture of reconciliation, the USA president and the Israeli prime minister will have two rounds of talks to ratify the long shopping list that Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon had asked US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter for two weeks ago, which included a $30 billion grant in military equipment for the next 10 years. Hundreds of combat troops guard about 850 Jewish settlers in the center of Hebron where they live amid tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Rights groups have slammed the calls for extrajudicial killings.
In Gaza, a 23-year-old Palestinian young man was shot dead and nine wounded in clashes on Friday between dozens of young men and Israeli soldiers at the borderline area between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
The Hebrew-based Walla! news website reported that the attacker turned himself in to the Palestinian security services late Sunday evening.
As in the Al Sharawi case, and many others, the circumstances of Ibeidu’s death are disputed.
Though Israeli-Palestinian peace has eluded Obama during his two terms in office, US officials said he will press Netanyahu for steps to keep alive the possibility of a two-state accord.
“So I told her she could not enter”.
The Israeli army confirmed they had shot a suspect, saying they responded after Palestinians tried to breach the buffer zone between Gaza and Israel.
“It is ridiculous that the USA and most Western European governments are blaming us for this violence”, says Bassem Kawar of CJP and the United States Palestinian Community Network. I went towards the shooting and I saw the army had run towards Qawasmi.
Also on Saturday, Israeli forces blocked exits from al-Khalil in search of assailants who allegedly stabbed three Israelis. A Border Police unit scrambled to the location and apprehended the Palestinian after firing a warning shot into the air.
However, Zaid said Qawasmi could not have crossed through the checkpoint with a knife. The video was later posted online (WARNING: Disturbing footage). In the eyes of Palestinian leaders, most of the terrorists who have been encouraged by Palestinian leaders to murder Jews are “innocent victims” who have had knives placed next to them by Israeli policemen and soldiers in order to frame them. “However, the object handled by the soldiers was a communications device”, a spokeswoman said. Israeli authorities arrested a 16-year-old boy accused of the shooting.
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Since October 1, 12 Israelis have been killed in street attacks by Palestinians, motivated in part by stepped-up Jewish visits to a Jerusalem site holy to both Muslims and Jews, and by deadlocked U.S.-backed peace-making efforts.
