Unrest has often erupted after the main weekly Muslim prayers on Fridays.
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Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 73-year-old Palestinian woman at a West Bank gas station on Friday in what the Israeli military alleged was an attempt to attack them with her vehicle.
Haddad, who is 25-years-old, was eventually allowed to leave the house to get food, but she was unable to return due to violent clashes between Israeli soldiers and settlers and Palestinian youth near her neighbourhood. They alleged she did not intend to attack the soldiers. Both Israeli police and the army have said there would be no investigation of the shooting.
Israeli public radio described two of the wounded as in a serious condition.
Around 4,000 Jewish worshippers were visiting Hebron on Friday and Saturday as part of a religious pilgrimage centered around the biblical matriarch Sarah, who according to tradition was buried in a field which eventually became part of the city Hebron.
The Palestinians call the wave of violence in the Palestinian territories “the Intifada of al-Quds” or the Uprising against Israel following the Israeli measures of dividing al-Aqsa Mosque compound in east Jerusalem in late September, while Israel calls it a wave of terrorism.
Briefing his cabinet before setting off for Washington, where he will be hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday, Netanyahu alluded to Palestinian statehood negotiations stalled since mid-2014 amid feuds over the West Bank settlements and the status of Jerusalem and Islamist Hamas-controlled Gaza.
In other cases, Israeli snipers have shot journalists with live ammunition or rubber-coated steel bullets even as they wore vests clearly identifying them as media workers.
Security forces also harassed journalists, throwing stun grenades and pointing guns toward them while shouting insults.
That first-person reference led one commenter on the page to say, “It appears that this page is actually run by Israeli left-wingers in the PLO’s name”.
“My children are living in fear”.
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The shooting occurred on Wednesday near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba after Israeli forces claimed the Palestinian was about to attack a soldier at a military post, Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported. Palestinians say the violence is due to a lack of hope for gaining independence after years of failed peace efforts.
