RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov 6 (Reuters) – The Palestinian administration in the occupied West Bank shut down the local office of a pan-Arab newspaper this week after accusing it of “offensive” reporting on Palestinian security coordination with Israel, officials said.
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Since mid-September, there have been near daily attacks on Israeli civilians or soldiers, killing 11 people.
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians as clashes grip West Bank and Gaza. One of the Israelis, a 16-year-old, was seriously injured. Israel welcomed the plan but the idea was met by Palestinian criticism.
Hebron has 200 000 Palestinian residents with approximately 500 Israeli settlers living in the centre, protected by an army-patrolled buffer zone.
The army said it was searching for the perpetrator of the shooting at the Hebron site, venerated by Jews as the Tomb (or Cave) of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque. He said she had been on her way to her sister’s house for lunch when she was killed.
The bodies of the Palestinian victims are most often held in Israeli custody for long periods of time before they are returned to relatives.
Medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent who initially attended at the scene said the woman was shot 15 times.
“With this hunger strike we succeeded in creating a new balance”, Allan said at a press conference upon his release.
Palestinians accuse Israel of seeking to change the rules governing the compound, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted he will not alter a status quo that forbids Jews from praying there.
Allan, a 31-year-old lawyer, was among several Palestinians who went on hunger strike earlier this year to protest their detention without charge or trial on renewable orders handed down by Israeli military courts.
In Hebron, a further 15 Palestinians were wounded in clashes, one of them seriously, Palestinian medical sources said, as security forces used live ammunition and tear gas. The two incidents mark only the third and fourth shooting attacks to have taken place during an escalation that has been characterized by stabbing and, to a lesser extent, car-ramming attacks.
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According to the latest figures by the Palestinian Health Ministry, at least 74 Palestinians have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli forces since the beginning of October.
