Abbas on Tuesday ordered those forces to act urgently to prevent protests from escalating the conflict. Hoping to head off the violence and potential knock-on attacks by ultra-nationalist Israelis, Netanyahu has beefed up the military presence in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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The reporters then suggest that Abbas has unilaterally pursued Palestinian statehood out of frustration with Israel but conspicuously fail to inform readers that such Palestinian unilateralism is itself a violation of the Oslo accords.
Netanyahu also listed a number of steps Israel has taken in a bid to contain the violence, including the demolition of attackers’ homes and tougher punishment for Palestinian stone throwers.
In the Tel Aviv incident, a Palestinian stabbed four Israelis with a screwdriver before a soldier shot and killed him. They identified the attacker as an Arab man without providing details.
Seventeen Arab Israelis were arrested by Israeli police as violent clashes spread to Israeli Arab cities on Wednesday, despite calls for calm on both Palestinian and Israeli sides.
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Dozens of Palestinian protesters threw stones at Israeli troops near the West Bank city of Ramallah and elsewhere on Thursday.
On September 15th, the NYT suggested that the Israeli who was murdered by rock-throwing Palestinians had died of a “self-inflicted accident” after the attackers had merely “pelted the road” (rather than his car). The man, whose injuries were moderate, was rushed to hospital as well.
Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan has recommended that Israelis who are licensed to carry firearms should do so.
Last Friday 19-year-old law student Muhamad Halabi proclaimed “the third intifada has begun” on his Facebook profile only hours before stabbing to death two Orthodox Jewish men and wounding two women and a child in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The violence continued Thursday, with four separate stabbing attacks in Jerusalem, the West Bank, Tel Aviv and northern Israel that wounded several Israelis.
Israelis continue to carry on with their daily lives, remaining defiant in the face of this ongoing wave of terror despite attacks showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.
Deputy US national security adviser Ben Rhodes said on Thursday that negotiations, “kind of got put on hold while this dispute over the nuclear deal was taking place”.
The meeting between Netanyahu and Yesha Council leaders was followed by an alleged ultimatum on the part of the U.S. that it would not veto a UN Security Council resolution claiming that the settlements in the West Bank were illegal. Israeli government and security officials having on various occasions quietly urged Israel’s most vociferous supporters on Capitol Hill to drop plans to cut funding to the PA security forces that had been under consideration in order to punish Abbas for seeking recognition at the United Nations.
He insisted the Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation but that his “hands are with those who are protecting Al-Aqsa mosque”.
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After Barkat recounted the recent knife attacks in Jerusalem, complaining about “incitement” by the Palestinian leadership, Cabrera brought up his gun and hinted that it, too, could be considered “incitement”. Palestinians have repeatedly barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque there, and hurled stones, firebombs and fireworks at the police. The victim, a man of about 35 who asked to be identified only by his first name, Daniel, suffered knife wounds to his head and back. A 19-year-old Palestinian from the Shuafat refugee camp has been arrested in that attack at a light rail station near Jerusalem’s main police headquarters.
