Ahmad Sharaka, 13, was shot and killed on Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian demonstrators outside Beit El, a Jewish-only settlement near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
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The wave of attacks began weeks ago in Jerusalem and has since spread across Israel, while violent protests have erupted in the West Bank and along the Gaza border – where nine Palestinians, including two children, were killed in clashes over the weekend.
A Palestinian hospital director says a 13-year-old Palestinian has been killed during a clash with Israeli forces in the West Bank, while Israeli police are reporting a new stabbing in northern Israeli.
Israel said its aircraft targeted a Hamas facility in Gaza Strip after cross-border rocket fire.
The pair were in moderate condition, medics said, with a third seriously wounded after being shot by another officer attempting to take down the assailant. The Palestinian boys were killed at a demonstration in the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Red Crescent, a humanitarian organization, said it had treated seven Palestinians who had been shot with live ammunition, the Ma’an News Agency reported. There were no injuries reported from those attacks. Mr Netanyahu quoted Ms Zoabi as saying to a Hamas newspaper that “hundreds of thousands of worshippers should go to the Al-Aksa Mosque to stand up against Israel’s conspiracy to condone violence against east Jerusalem residents”.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says a pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter have been killed in an Israeli airstrike. There were also two stabbings outside Jerusalem’s Old City and more violent confrontations in the West Bank.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said the woman killed was aged 30 and pregnant, her daughter was three.
The violence that engulfed Israel and the Palestinian territories these past 10 days has served as a tragic reminder that these expressions don’t exist in a vacuum.
Eleven Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Friday.
Israel’s Prime Minister has condemned an Israeli stabbing attack that injured 4 Arabs.
In central Gaza, and army statement said, dozens of suspects breached the fence with Israel.
A rocket fired by Gaza militants late Saturday was intercepted above southern Israel, the army said.
The nearly daily Palestinian knife attacks and clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing Palestinians have not reached the intensity of past Palestinian uprisings, but the rapid escalation has stirred talk of a third “Intifada”. Tear gas was sacked into crowds, and rocks have been hurled at the border.
Mr Abbas said his people had no interest in further violence and he was committed to “peaceful popular resistance”.
It could also ignite protests throughout the Arab world, disrupting Israel’s relations with Washington, and its Arab and Muslim neighbours that it has been covertly aiding in the US-backed war to topple the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The United Nations human rights chief is calling for calm in the West Bank after a week of spiraling tension, warning that “more bloodshed will only lead to more hatred on both sides”.
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The bodies of Noor Hassan and her 4-year-old baby Rahaf are prepared for burial at the Gaza mortuary after they were murdered by Israel’s military during airstrikes targeting Palestinian civilian areas early Sunday morning October. 11, 2015.
