A 23-year-old Palestinian from another West Bank city was found responsible for the second attack.
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According to DCI-Palestine’s statistics, at least 53 percent of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem arrested by Israeli forces are subjected to violence, while 86 percent are coerced into signing confessions in Hebrew, a language they do not know. While a few have said the violence has been spurred on by social media, experts say that the continuation of the internationally-recognized military occupation of the West Bank and military and economic blockade of Gaza is to blame. Another person was lightly wounded he said.
An Israeli in his seventies was left in serious condition after he was stabbed by a Palestinian in Netanya, 30 kilometres north of Tel Aviv.
The military said the earlier incident in the West Bank was the third attempted stabbing near the checkpoint between the West Bank and Israel in recent weeks. The terrorist later died of his injuries en route to the hospital, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. And then, Peres says, no more Israel as a Jewish state.
Now the attacker is surely at fault, but can anyone reasonably say that the taunter bears no responsibility, especially if he is bigger and stronger than the attacker?
Police also said they uncovered an explosive device when they searched a auto on Monday near Hebron.
A series of Palestinian attacks linked to tensions over a sensitive Jerusalem holy site began in mid-September.
The Israeli army said it had shut down overnight between Monday and Tuesday the Palestinian Al Hurria radio station in Hebron, which it claims broadcast “incitement to violence” and encouraged attacks against Israelis.
Many Palestinians are frustrated with the failure of peace talks, and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. “The operation confiscating the equipment and closing the station is a necessary step in eliminating the incitement the results of which have been seen on the ground over the past month”, a statement from the Israeli army said.
Ariel Schalit/AP Israeli rescue personal evacuate a woman from a stabbing attack site in Rishon Lezion.
The PA government, which held its weekly meeting in Hebron, hopes the measures will allow it to boost its presence in the city in general and the Old City in particular.
Peres has filled almost every position in Israeli public life since he became the director general of the Defense Ministry at the age of 25 and spearheaded the development of Israel’s nuclear program.
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In a one-minute video recorded on Thursday by a resident of the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank, an Israeli border officer speaking in Arabic broadcasts the message via a loudspeaker as an Israeli jeep drives through the street.
