Reacting to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s order to his security cabinet to prepare contingency plans for the fall of the Palestinian Authority (PA), PA President Mahmoud Abbas denied on Wednesday that the Palestinian governing body is in jeopardy of collapse.
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Relatives and onlookers stand in a building where the home (bottom) of Palestinian Bahaa Mohammed Halil Allyan was demolished by Israeli security personnel in the Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. It added that shortly afterward the first attack, a Palestinian was shot while he tried to stab soldiers near Hebron.
A military spokeswoman told AFP all three were killed.
The army says the attack took place on Thursday evening at the Gush Etzion junction near Jerusalem. The ma was later named as 16-year-old Khalil Shalalda, also from Sair.
Three Palestinians, brothers Ahmed and Mohammed Kawasbeh and their cousin Ala Kawasbeh, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers at an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank near the city of Hebron.
The circumstances of several Palestinian deaths have been disputed, with investigations by rights groups into a number of cases concluding that Israeli forces were implementing extrajudicial executions against Palestinians who posed no threat at the time of their death.
The Israeli military also destroyed a mosque in the Palestinian village of Rakhama in Negev desert.
Last week, Israel transferred to Palestinian control the corpses of dozens of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces during recent stabbings, shootings or auto attacks against Israelis.
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According to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), there were 369 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians from January 2015 to July 27, averaging more than 12 each week.
