“From January to August 2013, compared to the same period in 2012, the number of casualties caused by Israeli security forces increased more than four-fold, as security forces intervene in settler attacks or resulting clashes between settlers and Palestinians to disperse Palestinians, rather than to protect them from attacks by settlers”.
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The latest act of collective punishment was executed by troops in the Jabal al-Mukabbir district of East Jerusalem.
The Israeli military demolished and sealed off the occupied Jerusalem homes of two Palestinians accused of deadly attacks against Israelis in the city past year.
His father told the Palestinian Ma’an news agency that his family of eight were ordered to evacuate their first-floor flat while troops demolished the interior walls. On the same day, another attacker, Alaa Abu Jamal, rammed his vehicle into pedestrians and then stabbed people, killing one, according to AP.
The Education Ministry last month rejected an advisory panel’s recommendation to include the book, about a romance between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, in the curriculum for advanced literature students.
The attack was recognized and denounced by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
All 23 had been killed by Israeli security forces during an ongoing spate of violence that has claimed at least 144 Palestinian lives since October 1.
Thirteen other Israeli Jews a lot of them minors were also indicted for hate crimes including assaulting a Palestinian vandalism of Arab property and setting fire to a church.
Ali, who lived in Shuafat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, was shot dead on October 10 after he stabbed one Israeli soldier in the neck and another in the upper body outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City.
According to the United Nations, 19 homes of families and neighbours of Palestinian attackers were destroyed by Israel past year.
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A lawyer for the group said that the charges were among those submitted to the Jerusalem central court against Shadi Farrah and Ahmad Zatari, both 12 years old.
