Since the spate of violence broke out in October, stabbings, shootings and vehicle rammings by Palestinians have killed 28 Israelis and a US citizen.
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Israeli police officers body-search a Palestinian near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016.
The comments by the defence leaders were criticised by other government ministers for being insensitive while attacks against Israelis were still continuing.
Palestinian attackers have carried out numerous assaults at the gateway over the past 5 months, prompting Israel to significantly beef up security there in response.
February 3, three young Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, contiguous Palestinian territory in Jerusalem, had killed a border guard before being slaughtered.
“The restrictions and codes are clear, but terrorists must not remain alive when endangering Jewish lives”, he said. The cold reality for the Israeli and Palestinian people is that all have failed them, he said urging the two sides to work together to reach a solution.
A 21-year-old victim was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital in serious condition, where he was pronounced dead after extensive efforts to resuscitate him, a spokeswoman said.
France has presented Israel and the Palestinians with a proposal for an worldwide peace conference. The civilian, who was carrying a gun, said he was inside a prayer area near the supermarket and soon after services began, he heard screaming, went outside and shot at the attackers.
“We can not be trigger happy”, Yaalon told a conference in northern Israel.
Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian man on Friday after he stabbed two police officers outside Jerusalem’s walled Old City, police said, as a wave of heightened violence persisted into its fifth month.
“Nothing will convince us that we should not go to the United Nations Security Council over settlements”, said Zomlot, who is a senior official in Abbas’s Fatah party.
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Nickolay Mladenov, UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, said the violence showed “no sign of relenting”.
