The latest deaths were a 19-year-old Palestinian shot late on Monday in clashes near the southern West Bank city of Hebron and an Israeli who died of wounds sustained two weeks ago in a shooting and stabbing attack in Jerusalem.
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Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s effort to defuse a month of tension and violence between Palestinians and Israelis over the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem has triggered yet more contention over the site.
A Palestinian man reportedly attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint in Tel Rumeida and was shot dead by Israeli forces, Israeli news site Ynet said.
A surge of violence in the conflict showed no sign of abating as Palestinians, majority teenagers from the powder-keg city of Hebron, staged more lone-wolf knife attacks against Israeli soldiers and clashed with troops in the occupied West Bank.
The rights group said that, in at least four cases, “Palestinians were deliberately shot dead… when they posed no imminent threat to life, in what appear to have been extrajudicial executions”.
There have been nearly daily Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings, against Israeli civilians and security forces in recent weeks.
Under an agreement known as the “status quo”, Jews are allowed to visit the area in front of the mosque during specified hours, but are not allowed to pray there.
But the deal is a new scheme conjured up by the Israelis, according to Palestinian officials.
In another separate incident, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced that 20-year-old Sa’ad al-Atrash was killed of wounds by the Israeli army’s fire. While Jordan has retained custodial rights over the holy sites, administered by the Jordanian Waqf, Israel controls access.
Meanwhile, Habayit Hayehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich confronted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, saying the government has failed to make any progress on the initiative calling to strip terrorists of their Israeli citizenship or residency status.
Officials of the Islamic authority said that the Royal Court in Jordan instructed them to go ahead with the installation of cameras.
“The cameras will be installed according to the arrangements to be determined between the parties”. When the suspects stabbed and wounded one of many troopers, they have been shot, the army stated in a press release.
Jordanian and Israeli officials have agreed to install surveillance camera within days at the flashpoint Temple Mount complex, with the goal of streaming the footage live on the internet.
Increasing numbers of religious Jews visiting the compound – which is Islam’s holiest site outside Saudi Arabia and revered in Judaism as the location of two destroyed biblical temples – have led to Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a “status quo” under which Jewish prayer there is banned.
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Netanyahu in his statement on Saturday night said that “Israel will continue to enforce its longstanding policy: Muslims pray on the Temple Mount; non-Muslims visit the Temple Mount”.
