In recent days, several new roadblocks and checkpoints have been installed in Palestinian sections of Jerusalem. He was shot and killed in the attack.
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That has led to Israeli troops setting up even more dividers. “They are putting more pressure on us”.
The Palestinians call Israel’s 1948 “War of Independence” the “naqba”, meaning catastrophe. The situation is hard but we are living under occupation, so it is normal. “People are fighting alone”. Video images show him lying in a pool of his own blood being kicked by bystanders who thought he was an assailant.
As they struggle to calm public fears, at least four Israeli cities, including the commercial capital Tel Aviv, have temporarily banned Arab workers from their schools. The dead soldier was identified as 19-year-old Sgt. Omri Levi.
He was promptly arrested by police. Soldiers have been deployed in Jerusalem and cities across Israel.
Fathi Abu Warda, the head of the delegation, said they entered Israel through a border crossing in northern Gaza on Monday and were on the way to the West Bank.
Where Israelis see attackers killed in self-defense against what headlines call the “wave of terrorism”, Palestinians tend to see martyrs sacrificing themselves to fight the unacceptable predicament of their oppressed and humiliated people.
He said earlier one of the assailants was killed and the other apprehended.
But the official Palestinian version of events doesn’t always match the account given by Israeli authorities.
“We don’t contemplate any change, but nor does Israel”, Kerry told reporters at a news conference in Madrid. It did not mention a knife. Zerhoma died of his wounds after an Israeli security guard fired at him, apparently thinking he was an assailant. Police were on edge, traded curses with the crowd; at one point, they threw a stun grenade into the line. Numerous attacks were carried out by residents of east Jerusalem, the sector captured and annexed by Israel in 1967 and claimed by Palestinians as a future capital.
Forty-two Palestinians and eight Israelis have died in the recent violence, which was in part triggered by Palestinians’ anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound.
The Israeli security agency Shin Bet said the attacker had no past record of involvement in militant activity.
The wire service also reports, the Israeli military said the group had no permits to be there.
WAFA, however, casts the incident in a different light. There were no reports of serious injuries suffered by Israelis. According to IDF, an assailant attempted to stab a policeman but the knife did not penetrate the officer’s flak jacket, prompting the officer to fire upon and wound his assailant.
Palestinian protesters run from tear gas during clashes with Israeli forces near the Separation Wall in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 14, 2015.
Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, chipping away at territory sought for a future Palestine. This figure includes those killed after carrying out attacks.
On both sides there is a minority that watches the violence in despair – arguably more so in Israel, with its more individualistic society and culture of debate and introspection. Many have assimilated and seem to appreciate the advantages of prosperous and modern Israel, yet a few have participated in the recent attacks.
On Monday, they said there had been no other attacker and an investigation had been opened into the Eritrean man’s death. They live mostly in a maze of autonomous zones surrounded and dominated by the Israeli army.
Israelis feel that past leaders who in vain offered the Palestinians a state in Gaza and nearly all the West Bank with a foothold in Jerusalem – in 2001 and 2008 – were acting in good faith and exposed Palestinian intransigence.
The latest developments in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence (all times local).
A fire broke out Saturday at an Israeli bus company in an area just east of Tel Aviv, engulfing about 35 buses in flames. The site is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, or home of their biblical Temples, and to Muslims as the Haram as-Sharif, marking the spot where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. The settlers have disproportionate water rights and live under a separate legal system; they enjoy favored funding and can vote as part of Israel’s democracy, while the Palestinians endure strict security measures – without which the settlers might indeed come under constant attack.
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Clashes at the site have become common.
