An Israeli police spokeswoman had previously said that there were two attackers.
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The shooting incident at the Central Bus Station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba that led to the death of an Israeli soldier and injuring 11 other Israelis hit the front page headlines in the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
WAFA reported on this incident too, including allegations the woman carried out a stabbing, but the Palestinian news agency also included this caveat: “To be noted, Israeli police and army forces often resort to fatally shooting Palestinians – who are involved in alleged attacks against Israelis – while making no effort to apprehend them”.
Officers at the station reportedly opened fire on an Eritrean national unconnected with the attack after mistaking him for the assailant.
Israeli Palestinian violence continues as on Sunday evening one Israeli soldier and a Palestinian attacker died in a terrorist attack in Southern Israel.
In a bid to stem the most serious Palestinian attacks on its streets since an uprising a decade ago, Israel has poured hundreds of troops into its cities and set up roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem.
Israeli security officials are identifying the assailant of an Israeli bus station attack as a 21-year-old Arab citizen of Israel.
Kerry said Israel had a right to protect itself against random acts of violence, and in his conversations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the Israeli leader said he was committed to maintaining the status quo at the holy site. Israeli authorities so far don’t believe the attacks are the result of any campaign of violence organized by militant groups.
As Israel tightened security around the country amid a deadly wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in Paris he would meet the leaders of both sides in the coming days in a bid to halt the fighting. He also met Israeli stabbing victims at a hospital as well as children studying at a mixed Israeli-Palestinian school.
The site is sacred to Muslims and Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount. As a regional superpower, South Africa was able to enforce and sustain apartheid for a long time and there is no end in sight for the oppression of the Palestinians unless the global community, particularly people of faith, take strategic actions as they did to help black South Africans end Apartheid. They told police they meant to repaint the shrine after the fire. “I we have urge Israel to immediately cease this damaging practice”.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said Israel expressed its “firm opposition” to the French proposal for a United Nations Security Council resolution that would establish an worldwide presence to ensure the status quo at the site. Mr Kerry also plans to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Seidemann said Jerusalem is a binational city that has remained divided, even after 1967, and that Israel’s latest security measures have simply given a physical expression to those rifts.
The wall would effectively divide Palestinian Jabel Mukaber and Jewish Armon Hanatziv, raising criticism among the government’s opposition, which considered the move a de facto division of Jerusalem.
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A member of Israeli security forces carries flags of the Hamas terror group that were seized during clashes with Palestinian protesters near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit El on October 8, 2015.
