The clashes coincide with celebrations for the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah, often a tense period because of increased visits by Jews to the compound, which they call the Temple Mount.
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Disguised as Palestinian protesters, the Israeli infiltrating team was caught on camera by several journalists in the vicinity of the illegally-built Israeli settlement of Beit El near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
“What we have done is encourage all the different parties…to find a way to prevent any further escalation and hopefully have a restoration of calm”, Rhodes said. In central Israel, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli man at the entrance to a shopping mall.
Three separate stabbing attacks over Thursday has left Israelis on a state of high alert. He pushes for a multilateral peace effort. In the meantime, however, Netanyahu had a stark message for his citizens. Two of the lawmakers have already announced that they plan to visit the site on Friday.
Palestinians have been sharing images on Twitter and Facebook of murdered Israelis accompanied by expressions of “joy” over the terrorist attacks, the Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported.
Young Jewish boys light candles in the shape of a star of David at the spot of last week’s stabbing attack in the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City on October 8, 2015.
“This is a mistake”, said Cabinet member Uri Ariel, adding that Israel is caving in to Palestinian terror.
The mayor recently openly carried his Glock pistol on a tour of Isawiya, a mainly Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem. The incident, captured on video by an AFP journalist, saw three Palestinians wounded, including one critically from a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Israel had already lifted age restrictions from Wednesday on Muslims praying at the compounds.
A Palestinian demonstrater stands amid the smoke of burning tires ahead of clashes with Israeli secu …
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said that terror in Israel has been ongoing since the second intifada that began in 2000.
New clashes in the West Bank, as well as in the Tel Aviv district of Jaffa.
Ahmed Bitawi, director of the Palestine medical center in Ramallah, told Xinhua that 20-year-old Wisam Farraj was killed after Israeli police shot him in the chest.
“Protesters, a few masked, threw stones at police and assaulted and injured two officers”, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
Sandwiched between his civilian and military security chiefs after a day marred by seven attacks that stretched from Jerusalem to points north and south – including downtown Tel Aviv – Netanyahu sought to reassure his audience that security forces were doing “everything, but everything, in order to return the sense of security”.
Three Palestinians were wounded after a group of apparent undercover Israeli police infiltrated them and then opened fire Israeli media reported.
Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, who also spoke, said there was no need for a major offensive in the occupied West Bank and that pinpoint operations to arrest militants would suffice in confronting what he described as “a complex challenge”.
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While right-wing ministers, including Netanyahu, have accused Abbas of inciting violence.
