Israeli troops also sealed off a room in a home of another Palestinian militant who tried to kill prominent Orthodox Jewish activist Yehuda Glick past year, the Associated Press reported.
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As a first step in response to growing Palestinian unrest since Israeli PM Netanyahu promised to apply a “strong hand” in dealing with the crisis, the IDF has demolished the homes of two Palestinians who had perpetrated attacks against Israelis.
Four Palestinians have died in recent days. Israel says it carries out such demolitions to deter future attacks.
Israeli Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan told Army Radio that regular security coordination between Israel and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinians have limited self-rule, was continuing.
His comments came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged a crackdown and Israel, in a show of force, demolished the homes of two Palestinians who carried out attacks past year.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida also explained that settlers – [in revenge attacks following the fatal shooting of two Israeli settlers by suspected Palestinians]- vandalized over 200 Palestinian-registered vehicles, smashing their glass windows and windscreens, as well as set fire to Palestinian farmland.
Israel is to lift temporary restrictions on Muslim worship at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, imposed after the weekend killing of two Israelis nearby, police said Tuesday.
But in a sign that things might be calming, there were no major incidents of violence in Jerusalem, police said.
The Palestinian Authority has threatened several times in recent months to end security coordination between the Palestinian police and Israeli forces.
“We are telling our security forces, our political movements, that we do not want an escalation, but that we want to protect ourselves”.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm Tuesday that hostilities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem appeared to be “spiraling out of control”.
Four Israelis have been killed since Thursday in a stabbing and a drive-by shooting blamed on Palestinian militants.
This is why it’s more important than ever before to stand with Israel on the world’s stage as the enemies of freedom try whatever it takes to annihilate them.
The assailant was one of five siblings and lived with his family in a new two-story home in the West Bank town of Surda, north of Ramallah, the seat of Abbas’ self-rule government.
But if both Israeli and Palestinians leaders are under pressure to broadcast an image of toughness, analysts note that the latest tensions do follow about a decade of cooperation between both sides’ security services that has helped tamp down intermittent flareups. The compound in Jerusalem’s Old City is revered by Muslims as the spot where Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven and by Jews as the site of the biblical Temples. Israel has adamantly denied the allegations, describing them as slander aimed at inciting Arabs to violence.
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Confrontations spread late on Tuesday to Jaffa, a predominantly Arab neighborhood of Tel Aviv, where three police officers were injured in stone-throwing and six protesters arrested.
