Hundreds of combat troops guard about 850 Jewish settlers in the center of Hebron, which is also home to tens of thousands of Palestinians.
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Dany Danonm, Israeli representative to the United Nations sent a message to the UN Secretary General asking him to criticise Mansour’s remarks, accusing him of being “anti-Semite”. As reported in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “in 1967, after the Six-Day War, which saw the extension of Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries, Palestinians with assets in Jerusalem suddenly found themselves considered “absentee” owners, even though they hadn’t gone anywhere”.
Also on Sunday, a 19-year-old Israeli border policeman who was hurt last week in Hebron by a Palestinian attacker died of his injuries.
Earlier on Friday, an Israeli civilian sustained moderate- to-serious wounds in a knife attack in the parking lot of the Rami Levy supermarket in the Sha’ar Binyamin industrial park in the West Bank. Moreover, Israeli claims of access to worshiping sites are often a first step for more colonization of land and are inevitably met by a wave of rejection and anger.
According to reports, the man said he had stopped to shop inside the Palestinian village of Nabi Ilyas when he was jumped by two men who stabbed him. Maybe Israeli soldiers, featured in these images, assaulted the Palestinian residents? What is the specific reason they are attacking us now? Shamir also demonstrates his predilection for black humour in a series of assertions made about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, the Israeli state, and its treatment of Palestinians.
Triggered by Israeli incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Palestinian protests against Israel’s occupation started picking up steam in September. The driver turned himself in to Palestinian police in the nearby town of Dhahariya.
“This city has settlers inside it, and it is surrounded by settlements, it’s a unique situation, while the Israeli military forces are everywhere”, Salam Muharam, a field officer with MFS in Hebron, told Mondoweiss.
A Palestinian woman has been shot after launching an horrific terror attack on an unsuspecting Israeli guard in broad daylight. Palestinian officials charge that a few of the killings were street executions, the victims posed no lethal threat and could have been arrested. Palestinians without residency permits are not permitted to pass through the checkpoints.
We requested more security.
Two Palestinians were wounded by live fire, Palestinian medics said.
After midnight on Tuesday, Israeli soldiers raided the Hebron radio station Al-Hurriah and shut it down for broadcasting incitement to violence. The soldiers confiscated computers, mixers, recorders and trashed the offices. She was shot and killed at the scene.
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“We’re a group of Jews from the Samaria and Judea communities that decided, in light of the catastrophe around the Rami Levy branches with all the Arabs that work and shop there, that we will stop shopping in Rami Levy”, the group said.
