In a separate incident a female Israeli soldier was stabbed with a screwdriver in Tel Aviv, and the perpetrator was shot dead according to the Israeli military.
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The clashes came as Hamas’s chief in Gaza called the spreading violence an intifada, or uprising, and urged further unrest. He says Israel will overcome the spike in violence and pursue the perpetrators.
The statement comes after a spate of violence and a number of stabbings across the West Bank, Jerusalem and the rest of Israel.
“Each one of the killers had said he or she was prepared and even happy to die for the cause of murdering Jews”, he said.
Household items are used as weapons because guns can be harder to get for Palestinians unaffiliated with militant groups.
The teen told police who arrested him he had acted because “all Arabs are terrorists”. In the context of Arab-Israeli violence it refers to a concerted Palestinian attempt to shake off Israeli power and gain independence.
Daghlas said there has been a 48 percent increase in incidents of settler violence compared to this time a year ago.
The woman was shot in her lower body and treated at a hospital.
Israeli hardliners have called for the building of more settlements and the government have ramped up its policy of demolishing the homes of attackers and barred Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City.
Yet, with all of these factors there are still those who believe that the current violence taking place in Jerusalem and the aggression taken out on Al-Aqsa is different to that which we have seen in the past and that the third intifada is undoubtedly on its way.
Left wing activists hold signs during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, October 9, 2015.
When asked whether the murderers of Eitan and Na’ama Henkin – killed in front of their four young children last week – were from Hamas or Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a PLO Executive Committee member dismissed the importance of the distinction since killing Israelis is a “national duty”.
The Palestinian public’s frustration with Israel is also mixed with disappointment from the Palestinian Authority itself, whose security agencies persist with the security coordination with the IDF and do all in their capacity to prevent friction between the Palestinian insurgents and Israeli soldiers. Abbas gave a hard-line speech at the United Nations last month, saying Israelis desecrate the holy site with their “dirty feet”.
Muslims fear Israel will seek to change the longstanding rules governing the site, which allow Jews to visit but not pray to avoid provoking tensions. Many Muslims view these visits as a provocation and accuse Jewish extremists of plotting to take over the site.
However, recent events have affected the way in which we have started to interpret the effects that the Israeli occupation has on Palestinian life and human rights.
The soldier who was stabbed in Kiryat Gat was lightly wounded, Israeli authorities said, and police killed the attacker.
The video ends with more footage of attacks against Israeli security forces and staged images of a speeding vehicle, a terrorist who wields a knife, kindles a Molotov cocktail and shoots at a window.
In the southern city of Dimona, two people from the country’s Bedouin minority and two Palestinians were injured after being stabbed by an Israeli man who said his attacks were revenge for those made by Palestinians this week, according to Israeli media. He told Channel 10 TV that two of the victims worked for City Hall, and that passers-by quickly rushed to help the wounded Arabs and provided first aid.
It was mostly quiet Friday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
But his warning did not provide a time for when abidance by the agreement would stop; he only explained that the Israelis desecrate the Muslim holy site with their “dirty feet”.
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A vehicle belonging to Palestinian residents, which a few said was burnt by alleged Jewish settlers, in the occupied West Bank.
