On Thursday, a Palestinian allegedly opened fire at the same spot, killing an American, an Israeli and a Palestinian.
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Israeli soldiers stand guard next to Israeli commuters at a bus station where a Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli security forces, near the Gush Etzion block of settlements south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.
The surge in violence began in September when tensions at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims boiled over, amid rumours that Israel planned to relax long-standing rules to strengthen Jewish rights at the complex.
Hadeel Awwad, 16, died nearly immediately, while her cousin, 14-year-old Norhan Awwad was taken to a Jerusalem hospital, where a she was in a serious condition, with two bullet wounds in her stomach, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. Ahead of his trip, Kerry conceded he was coming without the ambitious agenda of past visits and was primarily focused on stemming the violence.
On Sunday, an Israeli woman was stabbed to death and three Palestinian attackers were killed in a series of incidents in the West Bank.
“No one in the world should live with attacks in the streets with knives, with scissors, cars”, Kerry asserted.
Since Oct. 1, 86 Palestinians have been killed, some while carry out assaults and others in clashes with Israeli forces.
“Too many Israelis have been killed and stabbed, and too many Palestinians”.
According to the 1995 Oslo II Accord, the West Bank is divided into three parts: Area A, which is under full PA control; Area B, which is under Palestinian civil control and Israeli security control; and Area C, under full Israeli security and civil control. Nevertheless, cops officers after told NBC News source in that the elderly casualty was really a Palestinian male aged around 70 who’s from the West Bank.
Al-Hayata al-Jadida said Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki called on the United States to “rein in” Israel so as to prevent the current political Palestinian-Israeli conflict from turning into a religious one.
With U.S.-backed talks on a Palestinian state in Israeli-occupied territory frozen since early 2014, Netanyahu said there could be no peace while an “onslaught of terror” continued. However, in the last couple of decades, India has stopped condemning the bombardments and atrocities inflicted on Palestine by Israel. The Palestinians say it is the result of almost half a century of Israeli occupation and frustration over repeated failures in peace efforts and a lack of hope for gaining independence.
Israeli soldier Ziv Mizrachi, 18, was stabbed and killed at a gas station on route 443, a major highway connecting central Israel with Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Last month, a U.S. State Department spokesman said that while Israel had a right and responsibility to protect its citizens, he cited reports “of what many would consider excessive use of force”.
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He gave no details of steps discussed with either Abbas or Netanyahu to end the violence, and there was no sign progress had been made.
