Israeli transfers of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority amount to about $100 million monthly, accounting for a considerable part of the authority’s budget.
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Early Saturday morning, Israeli forces bombed four sites across the besieged Gaza Strip after Palestinian fighters fired a rocket into the southern Israeli city of Sderot. As a result, the vehicle rolled over and the driver was killed in addition to the injury of 3 passengers.
“This includes the lockdown of the entire Hebron district”, home to 700,000 Palestinians, he said.
The long-anticipated report by the diplomatic Quartet, comprising the United Nations, Russia, the United States and the European Union, said Israel should stop building settlements, denying Palestinian development and designating land for exclusive Israeli use that Palestinians seek for a future state. We also understand another individual who was responding to the attack was wounded by the attacker. However, Israeli settlers are not subjected to this law.
“Israel believes that the encouragement of terrorism by the Palestinian leadership – in the form of both incitement and payments to terrorists and their families – constitutes incentive for murder”, the statement from Netanyahu’s office read.
This comes in addition to the array of steps already taken up by the Israeli government in the wake of the brutal murder of 13-year old Hallel Yaffa Ariel, a USA citizen, by a Palestinian assailant on Thursday. Israel beefed up its forces after that attack as well.
The violence comes a day after a Palestinian stabbed a 13-year-old Israeli girl to death as she slept in her bedroom in a West Bank settlement.
Hundreds of soldiers will enter the territory to try and prevent more attacks, Lerner said.
“Thousands of (Muslims) are expected to make their way to the Old City for prayers”, a police statement said in English.
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett, a member of the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party, said Israel would “build in Sarona and Kiryat Arba, in Jaffa and Jerusalem, in Itamar and Beersheba”, referring to areas in the West Bank and present-day Israel.
The attack triggered a massive manhunt by the Israeli military, which closed off the Hebron area, limiting movement for all the local population except for “humanitarian cases”.
“He did something he was totally convinced of”, he said of his nephew. Gen. Gadi Shamni told Israel Radio.
“The spreading of incitement to violence on social media has gained momentum since October 2015, and is particularly affecting the youth, ” the report says.
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“The Quartet report sounds an alarm bell that we are on a unsafe slope towards a one-state reality that is incompatible with the national aspirations of both peoples”, Nikolay Mladenov, UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, wrote in a statement Sunday.
