On Saturday, the PNA Presidency said the Palestinians won’t keep silent for the daily killing of the Palestinians in the West Bank, and held Israel responsible for “this unsafe escalation”.
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Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian after he stabbed an Israeli police officer at a West Bank checkpoint on Monday, the latest in a series of recent stabbing attacks that have escalated tensions in the region. The military says when a soldier turned to get the water, the Palestinian man attacked with a knife.
The military said that “an assailant stabbed a Border Police officer at the Beta Junction, south of Huwara”, in the second stabbing attack of the day and the third in less than a week.
An 18-month-old boy was killed in the July 31 arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma and days later his father died in hospital from horrific burns over 80% of his body.
Palestinian prisoner Samir Issawi arrives at his home in Issawiya after he was released in the first phase of the prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel, October 18, 2011.
With U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations stalled since April 2014, violence has simmered in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, among territories where Palestinians seek statehood.
Israeli doctors are keeping a hunger striking Palestinian prisoner at the edge of life while his lawyers and the government prepare to square off before the Israeli Supreme Court over his continued detention without charges.
So-called administrative detentions allow for indefinite imprisonment without trial for renewable periods of six months.
Many believe this may be a step toward force feeding him, a practice which according to the Israel Medical Association is a “form of torture”, yet was sanctioned by the Knesset with a new law last month. Allan’s lawyer rejected the offer.
The petition to the court asking for Allen’s release on health grounds was filed after he slipped into a coma Friday. In the meantime, they asked both sides to try reaching a compromise on the matter.
While Israeli authorities worry that Allan’s death could lead to Palestinian unrest, they also insist that his release would only encourage other Palestinian prisoners to begin hunger strikes to demand their freedom as well. He had been on hunger strike since June to protest his continued administrative detention without trial.
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For now, doctors at the hospitals involved with Allan’s case have remained publicly united against the law and dozens of doctors protested this week against it. But some see keeping the patient alive as their primary ethical duty.
