The two incidents follow two months of turmoil in the region which left 12 Israelis and 75 Palestinians dead.
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Arab foreign ministers are searching for ways to halt what one called Israel’s “dangerous escalation” of violence against Palestinians.
AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS Israeli medics evacuate a wounded Israeli security guard after he was stabbed by a Palestinian boy at a train station in the Pisgat Zeev section of Jerusalem.
The guards shot at him and wounded him critically, and the Hadassah Har Hatzofim hospital in Jerusalem announced his death a short while after his hospitalization. Israel has repeatedly denied such claims.
Also Tuesday, Israeli troops arrested 24 suspected Hamas operatives in the northern West Bank town of Qalqilya.
A few 53 percent of Israelis have expressed support for the extrajudicial killings of alleged Palestinian attackers on the spot, even after their arrest and when they “no longer pose a threat”, according to a new poll.
While cars careening into crowds was the trend in terror last year- with hit songs in Gaza and the West Bank praising “martyrs” behind the wheel- this year Hamas and Palestinian Authority leaders, clerics and newspaper editors are openly encouraging stabbings that have so far killed a dozen and wounded 167 since October 1.
One of Ahmed’s lawyers, Palestinian Tariq Barghout, said the clip was a “compilation” of moments from the full 4.5-hour interrogation, which he said he had viewed.
Scheper-Hughes, the founder of Organ Watch, said: “Israeli organ traffickers have a pyramid system at work that’s awesome…they have brokers everywhere, bank accounts everywhere; they’ve got recruiters, they’ve got translators, they’ve got travel agents who set up the visas”.
The latest bloodshed was triggered by unrest at a major Jerusalem shrine revered by both Muslims and Jews, and quickly spread across Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza border.
Hagit Ofran of the anti-settlement group Peace Now said that it could be years before any of the homes are built since the plan must pass several other phases before construction can begin. “You can not terrify or threaten or tempt for the objective of achieving a confession”, she said.
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Samri, the police spokeswoman, said the investigation was conducted “with professionalism and without bias”.
