Israeli soldiers speaking in Arabic over a public address system said, “Inhabitants of Aida, we are the Israeli occupation forces, if you throw stones we will hit you with gas until you die”.
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The ongoing wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians has brought the United States and Jordan to propose the installation of close circuit television cameras on the Temple Mount compound.
Iour Israelis were stabbed in separate attacks on Monday, while a Palestinian teenager who reportedly tried to knife a soldier was shot dead.
Israel’s army and police are defending the actions shown in the videos – with the exception of an officer who was suspended over the tear gas threat.
“We are working with the Jordanian brothers to revert the situation to pre-2000 and protect our holy sites from the continuous settler attacks”, Abbas said at a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
In contrast, not only has the Palestinian leadership never believed in peaceful co-existence, but it has constantly indulged in racist incitement, and often violence, to try to eliminate Israel.
The Palestinian Authority’s committee on detainees, for its part, has accused the Israeli army of arresting children in many cases.
“Palestinians in Hebron are angry because of the increased violence by the Israeli radical Jewish settlers”, Hebron Governor Kamel Hamid told The Media Line using the term applied to Jewish Israelis living in communities located on land Israel conquered in the 1967 war. “Direct contact with extremist armed Jews who live in enclaves set up in the heart of the city is the most important reasons why young Palestinians in Hebron carry out aggression”. Apparently, he remained completely silent on the issue of terrorism when he visited the Palestinian Authority (PA) a day or two earlier.
The 37-acre (15 -hectare) site has been at the heart of the current round of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
The violence was originally focused in and around Jerusalem, but the epicentre later moved to Hebron. Seventy Palestinians have also been killed – 44 of them said by Israel to be attackers and the remainder killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
On Friday, dozens of protesters outside the shrine condemned restrictions on access imposed by Israel, which has divided it into a mosque and a synagogue.
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Despite the best efforts of the Zionists to force them to leave their homeland, the Palestinian people remain steadfast in their resistance.
