Israel’s High Court suspended his detention on August 19 as he was given medical treatment following his hunger strike, which twice left him in a coma.
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Sixty-eight Palestinians, nine Israelis, and an Arab Israeli have been killed in a wave of unrest since the start of October. Eleven Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, while 71 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire- 45 of them said by Israel to be attackers and the remainder killed in clashes with Israeli troops. Abu Qtaish said there is a “double standard at play”, arguing that Israelis, including settlers and children, “throw rocks at Palestinians and other people” without being arrested at similar rates.
The West Bank-based Abbas has ordered his security forces to try to prevent armed attacks on Israelis, saying such violence goes against Palestinian interests. Speaking about the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, he said Israelis “have no right to dirty it with their filthy feet”. But the Palestinians say it’s the result of simmering frustrations stemming from almost 50 years of Israel’s occupation of lands they want for their future state.
Israel has been withholding the bodies of a few suspected assailants as part of measures to deter attacks on Jews.
In a conflict with two diametrically opposed narratives in which words and history have always been used as weapons, Netanyahu has also been accused of fuelling tensions.
Medics try to approach the injured youth but are pushed back by Israeli forces.
Despair and frustration among young Palestinians are driving much of the violence, with many feeling they have nothing to lose, Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate head Major General Herzi Halevi has said, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The city, the largest in the West Bank, is home to a shrine known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque.
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Palestinian officials confirmed the man’s death, naming him as Malik Sharif, 25, of Hebron. “I will not accept to be a slave for an Israeli intelligence officer, who arrests and releases me whenever he wants without charge”, said Allan, adding that he meant to return to his job as a lawyer and get married.
