On two occasions where Israel handed over bodies for burial, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s U.S.-backed administration “met our conditions” by ensuring the funerals were “modest family affairs, held at night”, Yaalon said.
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During this same period 2,130 Palestinians were injured by Israeli troops. It is a holy place for all three great monotheistic religions.
Hebron – home to a shrine known to Jews as Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque – is a city of 200,000 Palestinians.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon threatened on Sunday that Israel would stop returning bodies of terrorists to the Palestinian Authority if they will be laid to rest in mass funerals. We forget that, according to our historians, when the Second Caliph, Omar bin al-Khatab, conquered Jerusalem, he and his advisor Caab al-Akhbar (a Jew who converted to Islam) both affirmed that the location of the Temple of the Jews had been on the Temple Mount, next to today’s Al-Aqsa mosque.
He added that Israel was continuing with excavations on the western flank of the al-Aqsa compound that first came to public attention with the opening of the Western Wall tunnels in 1996, during Netanyahu’s first premiership. This anger eruption had surprised the Israeli government with its intensity and wide spread.
Israeli forces later showered demonstrators with hundreds of tear gas canisters, and attacked them with stun grenades, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition.
He had earlier carried out a stabbing attack in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday. And the Palestinians? They will certainly know what is good for them.
A police assertion stated the Palestinian had simply stabbed a soldier and that the officer seen within the footage informed him to not transfer. Within the Green Line, Israel is a multi-ethnic democracy in which every citizen is guaranteed equal rights under the law (enshrined in the declaration of independence): there are active Israeli-Arabs in Parliament and in many leading walks of life.
Eleven Israelis have been killed in stabbings and shootings.
He led the operation to capture the Palestinian cities of Lydda and Ramle and ordered the expulsion of their residents. The Palestinians also have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court if they feel the wall’s route is problematic; in over 100 cases these appeals have been successful, though there are problems with access to lawyers for many Palestinians and thus not all grievances are expressed. By denying it, we turn Muhammad into a liar (Allah forbid!) and say he was not a true prophet, and that the Qur’an’s prediction of the return of the Jews was not the word of Allah.
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Ghattas, like other Palestinian leaders, was concerned that Israel will use the new cameras to identify Palestinian activists and arrest them or ban them from the site. He does not want an Intifada because it would threaten his position and his legacy at the end of his political career days. Israel had granted the PLO limited autonomy on a minimal amount of land and had agreed to negotiate from a position of strength on the main issues. He also gave his empty threats of not being able to continue security cooperation with Israel if negotiations do not resume. “We maintain the status quo”.
