Gunfire and clashes with Israeli troops left two Palestinians dead and three wounded at a Palestinian refugee camp near Jerusalem early today, a Palestinian health official said.
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Israeli forces have arrested a Palestinian suspect in a drive-by shooting that killed two Israelis in the West Bank, the internal Shin Bet security service said Sunday.
According to the Israeli military, the Palestinian attacker opened fire as the family was driving near the West Bank city of Hebron, killing the father, who was in his 40s, and his 18-year-old son.
During the operation to destroy the house at Qalandiya, hundreds of Palestinians attacked Israeli security forces by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, the military said.
Cartoons blaming Israel for the attacks were published on the party’s official Facebook page, Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday, one day after an Op-Ed in the official PA daily said that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was behind the attacks.
“I am sure if they are continuing with these processes, there will be reactions like this”, he said.
Three of the homes were destroyed in Nablus, in the northern West Bank, and the other in Silwad, northeast of Ramallah.
Israelis can’t afford to dismiss such propaganda, no matter how outrageous it might be, said Ken Jacobson, deputy national director of the Anti-Defamation league. Rights organizations have denounced the measure as a form of collective punishment.
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) stated the Israeli crimes in Qalandia refugee camp will never succeed in breaking the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.
Shortly after, over 1,000 Israeli soldiers re-rolled into the camp, and sealed it off from all corners, sparking violent clashes, and Laith Manasra was shot-dead.
It is the latest escalation in two months of violence in which 14 Israelis have been killed, mainly in stabbings. Armed fighters from the al-Aqsa martyrs’ brigades, linked to president Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah, with which one of those killed was affiliated, joined the crowd.
Israel has renewed a home demolition tactic that it says is a legal and effective tool to deter attacks.
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Nine Palestinians were wounded in the clashes that followed the demolitions.
