According to Al-Jazeera, the item of importance in the stabbing is that the Palestinian attacker was killed; the Israeli victims are simply afterthoughts who were “also” killed.
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Amid the continuing attacks, about 1,600 reserve border police officers have been mobilized in Jerusalem and throughout Israel, the Prime Minister’s office said in a statement over the weekend. The attacker was shot dead.
On October 3, a 19-year-old Palestinian, Muhannad Halabi, killed two Israeli civilians, one of whom had been praying at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The same logic has been used throughout the last century, when the current so-called Israeli Defense Forces were still operating as armed militias and organized gangs in Palestine, before it was ethnically-cleansed to become Israel.
Since the beginning of the month, four Israelis have been killed and at least 67 injured in attacks by Palestinians.
Israeli police said they had arrested a local leader of the Islamic Movement in the Bedouin Arab town of Rahat in southern Israel who was suspected of organising a group of protesters who vandalised security cameras and other property in the town on Friday. The other, just 13 himself, was shot and injured.
One of the two children, 12-year-old Ahmad Manasra died, while 14-year-old Hasan Manasara was left to bleed in the street; according to medics, Manasara’s condition remains “very serious”.
The video has generated shock even among Palestinians regularly exposed to the occupation’s violence. Ordinary Israelis have been victims of hate crimes-rock throwing, stabbings, auto assaults, firebombs and shootings-as they walk and drive about unsuspectingly doing their daily business, which, during the High Holidays a few weeks ago, meant going to and from prayer.
A second knife attack also occurred near the Damascus Gate when a young Palestinian man stabbed two Israeli police officers, one of them in the neck, after police checked his identification, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. The name of the person was not immediately available.
Reached by Reuters, the woman’s father, Zeidan Abed, said he received no call from her, declining to discuss the incident any further.
He was killed on Sunday during clashes in Ramallah. “For years, Israeli governments did not show sovereignty in places like Shuafat”.
Abu Khalil showed no fear even as the soldiers raised their guns. Increasing Palestinian physical violence and terrorist attacks have alternated with inflammatory rhetoric and hostile demonstrations. Border police responded by shooting and killing the man, she said without providing details on his identity.
Al-Jazeera came under fire for publishing a similarly misleading headline on social media to its story of the stabbing. Innocent civilians should not be killed for protesting for what they believe in, and the way to put down a protest does not always need to involve violence. Israel has already deployed thousands of police and soldiers across Israel and the West Bank, and Netanyahu is considering a ban on the Islamic Movement.
While the spark was in Jerusalem, Palestinians are rising against the occupation, discrimination, inequality and the Gaza siege in the West Bank, Gaza and inside the Green Line. Israel interferes with every aspect of Palestinian lives.
In the West Bank, Palestinians opened fire on an Israeli military post near the village of Nabi Saleh before escaping. It was initially organized by Palestinian Arab parties, which were mostly sanctioned by the British Mandate government itself.
Police say the Palestinian attacker was captured by bystanders at the scene in Raanana, 12 miles (20km) from Tel Aviv.
There have been warnings of the risk of a full-blown uprising, or Palestinian intifada.
It all began in late September when Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, declared that Palestine would no longer be bound by the Oslo Accords (the 20 year old agreement signed by both Israeli and Palestinian leadership that, at the time, signalled a new beginning for the two nations).
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In attempt to appease demands for tougher “security”, the mayor of the northern Israeli city Kiryat Bialik instructed police to inspect the ID cards of Arab workers at construction sites in the city, Ynet reported.
