Four Israelis injured and two Palestinians shot, one fatally, in three alleged attacks in Israel and occupied West Bank.
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The day after Bill Clinton delivered his message to the Rabin rally, another knife-wielding Palestinian was shot in self-defense by Israeli soldiers; a second Palestinian rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli pedestrians in the West Bank; and the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the Palestinian Authority for giving a state funeral, with full military honors, to two terrorists who knifed Israeli civilians.
Later, a 19-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Hebron stabbed three people in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Lezion before being overpowered and arrested, Israeli police said. The Palestinian Health Ministry says about 1,000 Palestinians were wounded by live fire in October.
Incitement by Abbas and others, they charge, is a major catalyst for the recent wave of Palestinian terrorism in which 11 Jewish-Israelis have been killed and more than 50 Palestinians have died, including dozens identified by Israel as assailants, in Israel’s attempt to stem the violence. Then one of the Palestinian was been shot by the soldiers and the other was arrested. Clinton oversaw Israeli-Palestinian negotiations when Rabin was prime minister that led to the Oslo Accords in 1993.
The clashes follow weeks of Palestinian-Israeli violence that has raised fears of a third intifada.
He said he won’t condemn those who carry out stabbing attacks, arguing that they were driven to such acts by Israeli measures, such as land confiscations and movement restrictions.
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said he was wounded in the incident.
Video later emerged of a Palestinian smashing a female tour guide over the head with a bottle and then running away outside Jerusalem’s Old City.
Part of the appeal is the unexpected: Palestinians clashing with Israeli soldiers are typically masked stone-throwers in scruffy jeans, not nattily dressed professionals.
The Palestinian attacks has resulted to the death of about eleven Israelis, most of which were stabbings.
Both died weeks ago, in separate attempted attacks, according to Israel.
Initial reports indicated that the attacker was a Palestinian from the southern West Bank city of Hebron and had been injured and detained.
Meanwhile, Amnesty worldwide has accused Israeli forces of “unlawful killings of Palestinians”, which Israel military has strongly denied as being “outrageous, unsubstantiated and anonymous claims”.
“The presence of the [Jewish] settlers and [Israeli] soldiers is affecting normal life in Hebron”, Amro said, lamenting the many checkpoints and roadblocks that had been set up around the city.
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In Ramallah on Monday, amid much ceremony, Palestinians laid to rest two of those killed in the violence – 25-year-old Omar Al Faqeh and 23-year-old Mohammed Shamasni. According to the Israeli military, Jaradat stabbed an Israeli in the neck Monday, October 26, before being shot and killed.
