The terrorist organization said on April 20 that the man who died earlier that evening in a Jerusalem hospital of wounds sustained in the bus bombing was the terrorist who placed the explosive device in the vehicle.
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The six, who are to be charged in the coming days, allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at a Palestinian home in the village of Mazraa al-Qibliya last November while family members slept. Critics say the tactic is collective punishment.
Many analysts say Palestinian frustration with Israeli occupation and settlement building in the West Bank, the complete lack of progress in peace efforts and their own fractured leadership have fed the recent unrest.
Large numbers of police forces were deployed Friday morning throughout Jerusalem in light of security establishment estimates that Palestinian rioters will cause disturbances on the Temple Mount compound and in east Jerusalem, and will call for lone terrorist attacks during the Passover holiday. Forces tried to disperse the crowd, then fired live bullets at demonstrators.
This means that the Palestinians who are attacked have no legal recourse to pursue justice against those who attacked them.
There have not been any confirmed casualties in this incident, although 21 people were injured, with two in critical condition, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials have said that the Egyptians, the Jordanians and the Saudis were not keen to see the draft resolution move forward at this time.
His mother also said her father – her son’s namesake – had been killed by the Israeli military in Lebanon in 1981.
In Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank, the IOF kidnapped two Palestinians, identified as Kamal al-Almani, and Bara’ Ateyya, after stopping them at a roadblock.
The news this week that Israel had discovered a new Hamas tunnel from Gaza into Israel proper confirms that the terror group has not been swayed by the 2014 war, despite the many casualties and physical destruction its citizens suffered.
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Israel retains full control over more than 60 percent of the West Bank, known as “Area C” and home to dozens of Israeli settlements with some 370,000 residents.
