They did not say what rank he held in the PA’s security forces. Marco Rubio, said at the same forum that those calling for more sacrifices from Israel “are dead wrong, and they don’t understand the enduring bond between Israel and America”.
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After warning shots were ignored, “forces fired live fire and tank rounds” and the suspects retreated, she said.
A recent report by Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organisation, showed that more than 92.6 percent of complaints Palestinians lodge with the Israeli police go without charges being filed.
Israel has arrested several people in connection with an arson attack in July that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents in the West Bank village of Duma – a result of an investigation criticized by both Palestinians and a United Nations official for its slow pace.
Stationed throughout the West Bank, Israeli soldiers, police and private security firms protect settler populations at the expense of Palestinian civilians. The 1-year-old’s mother and father, Riham and Saad, also died later of their wounds, while his older brother, 4-year-old Ahmad, is still being treated in an Israeli hospital.
In Thursday’s violence, the military said a Palestinian attacker got out of a vehicle and opened fire near the West Bank village of Hizme, on Jerusalem’s northern outskirts.
It is unusual for Palestinian security agents to be implicated in such attacks.
Donald Trump said if president, he would know within six months whether or not his administration could achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
The officer was hospitalised with a light stab wound and a wound to the leg from a bullet fired errantly by one of his colleagues, a police spokeswoman said.
Muslim culture requires that a body be buried as soon after death as possible, but Israeli authorities have prevented the families of numerous Palestinians killed in the last two months from retrieving the bodies of their loved ones for burial. Palestinians say it is rooted in frustration over years of failed talks and lack of hope of gaining statehood. Israeli security forces have killed more than 100 Palestinians, the majority of whom were shot after attacking Israelis. “Four months have passed since the arson attack against the Dawabsha family”, he said in a statement.
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Israel says home demolition is an effective tool to deter attacks, but critics say the tactic amounts to collective punishment.
