Israeli officials have frequently asserted that a recent wave of nearly daily Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis has been prompted by incitement in social and traditional media. On Saturday, Saeb Erekat visited the home of Aribah’s family to pay his respects to Aribah, who had been killed by Israeli police at the scene of his attacks.
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A spokeswoman for Wallstrom at the time said her comments about Palestinians and the Paris attacks had been made in different sections of the interview, but that the story had been presented to suggest a link.
“If the Israelis don’t hurry up to implement the two-state solution on the ground, they will lose”, said Ahmed Qurei, a longtime Palestinian negotiator.
A Palestinian man was shot and killed on Sunday evening in Jerusalem after he ran over an Israeli and stabbed another, Israeli police said. The authors – economist Avner Halevi and Gilead Sher, a former chief negotiator with the Palestinians – said this would require removing about 100,000 settlers, while others living close to Israel’s de facto border would remain pending a future negotiation.
In the aftermath of Shahin’s killing, clashes erupted between Israeli troops and Palestinians in ‘Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem.
Medics say Israeli forces clearly aimed to kill the Palestinian youth, as he was shot directly in the head with “dum dum” bullets, which expand upon impact.
The Israeli military said violence erupted during “routine activity” when its troops encountered a barrage of “pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails and rolling burning tires and fired warning shots in the air to disperse the mob and prevent an escalation”. Violence erupted over tensions at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, sacred to both Jews and Muslims, and quickly escalated and spread.
Many of the Palestinian attackers in the past months of bloodshed were from Hebron.
Young Palestinians have grown frustrated with Israel’s occupation and the complete lack of progress in peace efforts in addition to their own fractured leadership.
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He pointed out that his organisation documented Israel’s acknowledgement, in reports, that its police and army killed Palestinian children by shooting directly at them and continuously without prior attempts to arrest them. In other words, to grant the military court a façade of professional respectability that the Palestinians, the attorneys and independent legal scholars are convinced it does not have.
