Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said border police found a knife on a 27-year-old woman near Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque, “in what appeared to be an attempt to carry out a stabbing operation against forces there”.
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Eighty-two Palestinians in all have been killed, a few while carrying out attacks and others in clashes with Israeli forces, while 18 Israelis and an American student have been killed in Palestinian stabbings, shootings and auto rammings. Israel’s navy was able to stop several of the ships without incident, but its commandos were attacked when boarding the Mavi Marmara, leaving 10 activists dead in an ensuing gun battle, said the Israeli outlet.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) released a statement saying that more than 450 violations of media freedoms had taken place by the Israeli regime since the start of the year.
NEW DELHI – Bangladesh executed two influential opposition leaders who had been convicted of committing war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, a senior jail official said Sunday, despite concerns raised by the United States and human rights groups that the proceedings that led to the sentences were flawed.
The bloodshed has been driven in part by Muslim agitation over stepped-up Jewish visits to a contested Jerusalem shrine, and by long-deadlocked talks on a U.S.-sponsored peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
The attack occured in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, near the football stadium in the centre of town. It underlined increased Jewish-Arab tensions as a result of the recent attacks in Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Much of the violence has emanated from Hebron, the largest West Bank city, where hundreds of Israeli settlers live in heavily-guarded enclaves surrounded by tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli security forces shut down a local Palestinian radio station in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron, El-Halil Radio, the station’s manager and the Israeli army said.
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Meanwhile, Israeli police said a Jerusalem court sentenced a police officer to six weeks of community service for beating a Palestinian-American teenager during a violent protest in July 2014.
