Israeli prosecutors filed murder charges on Sunday against two Jewish citizens for a July 31 arson attack in the occupied West Bank that killed three members of a Palestinian family, Israel Radio said.
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A soldier serving in reserve duty was lightly wounded Tuesday morning in a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank. The attacker had attempted to stab police on Haim Bar-Lev Street in Jerusalem near the Old City and then tried to run away.
IOF told the Palestinian Authority that the Palestinian’s corpse will be returned later today and not detained.
Twenty-two Israelis, an American and an Eritrean have been killed in Palestinian attacks including stabbings, vehicle rammings and gunfire targeting security forces and civilians since October 1.
On the Israeli side, 24 settlers were killed in attacks or Israeli mistaken bullets.
The attacker was shot and killed by forces at the scene responding to the attack, the military said.
Palestinians have said Israel has placed conditions on the return of bodies, demanding they hold small nighttime funerals and provide cash deposits to guarantee their compliance.
Amiram Ben-Oliel, described by Israeli media as a 21-year-old Jewish radical from Jerusalem, was charged with racially-motivated murder at Lod court near Tel Aviv.
Lawyers for the Duma defendants said they had given false confessions under torture in close-door interrogations – an allegation denied by Netanyahu and the Shin Bet security agency.
At least two gunmen were holed up in a two-story building on an Indian air force base near the Pakistan border and exchanging gunfire with troops Monday, more than two days after they and several others attacked the…
Israel says the violence is being fanned by a Palestinian campaign of incitement. The Palestinians say it is the result of five decades of Israeli military occupation.
Israeli forces also detained Ihasan Ghazi Hattab, 26, from Tulkarem district, and Bassam Nabil Umran, 19, and Bilal Salim Radwan, 23, from Qalqiliya district, the prisoner’s society said.
Yinon Reuveni, 20, and another minor were charged for other violence against Palestinians, including setting fires to two of the Holy Land’s most famous churches – the Dormition Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located just outside Jerusalem’s Old City, and the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
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“We have no trust in the Israeli judiciary”.
