Rather than recognize any Israeli self-defense concerns, she stated that “it is the Palestinians who lack security, even food security”, overlooking increasingly obese Gazans’ fondness for weight loss programs.
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The site is sacred to both Judaism and Islam and, as such, has become a focal point of discord.
A Palestinian uses a slingshot during clashes following a demonstration in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, October 5, 2015.
On Monday, Abdel Rahman Abdullah, a 13-year-old from the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, was shot and killed by Israeli forces, prompting further protests and unrest. They have been putting intense pressure on Netanyahu to respond to the surge in violence with a tough crackdown and increased settlement activity.
“Demolishing terrorists’ houses and deporting their families is the best deterrent and most efficient way to deal with terrorism by individuals”, Ben-Dahan said. “We will reach the killers of the innocent and pure, and we will reach their inciters and their dispatchers, and will deliver them a stinging blow”. Arman, now the top man in the Hamas leadership from inside Israeli prisons, is serving 36 life sentences. It is from the dust of Mount Moriah, according to a few interpretations, that Adam is said to have been brought into existence and where the second temple stood before it was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.
A sixth Israeli civilian was stabbed by a Palestinian woman in Jerusalem. The attacks have shocked Israelis and sparked fears of a new Palestinian Intifada, or uprising.
The first attack on Thursday saw a Palestinian stab a 25-year-old Jewish man in Jerusalem, leaving him in serious condition.
Tensions have been rising in the wake of a series of attacks by all sides on Israelis, Palestinians and Bedouins.
Tuesday night’s talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials followed a call for restraint from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, who had declared in a speech to the UN General Assembly last week that he was no longer bound by accords with Israel.
The move appeared to put him on a collision course with hard-liners in his government who have been pressing for a harsh crackdown and settlement expansion in the West Bank in response to the violence.
In a sermon for weekly Muslim prayers at a mosque in Gaza City, Hamas’s Gaza chief Ismail Haniyeh said “we are calling for the strengthening and increasing of the intifada”.
Palestinian protesters have repeatedly clashed with Israeli security forces in and around the complex in recent weeks.
The stabbings have deeply unnerved Israelis and authorities have struggled to prevent them.
Netanyahu praised citizens’ actions in confronting the attacks, saying that “Israelis are acting to neutralize and eliminate the terrorists while in the act and this requires extraordinary bravery and initiative”.
The soldier who was stabbed in Kiryat Gat was lightly wounded, Israeli authorities said, and police killed the attacker.
Arab Members of the Knesset have joined the incitement on the Temple Mount, have sought to explain away Arab violence against Jews, and condemn the killing of Arab murderers by Israeli police.
He said Israel is “chasing children and shooting them from the back”, which isn’t the conduct “of a moral army”. The Palestinian was shot in the chest, according to the Red Crescent and hospital sources.
Early reports said he was an 18-year-old resident of Hebron in the West Bank. Video of the arrests of at least two Palestinians showed uniformed Israeli soldiers and plainclothes men beating the detainees. “The forces reported hearing live fire from them”, an Israeli military spokesman told CNN.
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At one point, a member of the security forces rushes forward, shots ring out and the woman falls to the ground. At least 171 Palestinians were wounded in the clashes, it said.
