According to Israeli army, the raid – during which some 200 refugee households were searched and ransacked, with families reporting being locked inside rooms in their homes for hours on end – was conducted as an “operational activity to uncover weaponry” and search for wanted Palestinians. “We got close to 55 percent support for the package when it is an Arab-Israeli peace rather than just a Palestinian-Israeli peace”.
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The Palestinian think tank and the Israel Democracy Institute, a leading research center in Jerusalem, surveyed 1,184 Israelis and 1,270 Palestinians, revealing mistrust and fear of the other on both sides, along with some hope for flexibility.
At the same time, 59% of Israelis back the two-state solution as a resolution to the conflict, based on the poll, which was cited by Jpost. Those arrests came one day after Israeli officials issued 38 new “administrative detention” orders against Palestinian detainees, including a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Since the start of the year, Israel has seized dozens of weapons, shuttered arms-making factories and arrested weapons dealers in a clampdown in the West Bank meant to quell a spate of Palestinian violence.
A minority of Israeli Jews and Palestinians (39 percent) back the deal, along with a whopping 90 percent of Israeli Arabs.
Some 34 Israelis and two visiting Americans have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings but also shootings.
A slim majority of both Israelis and Palestinians still favor a peace settlement with a Palestinian state alongside Israel, a new poll showed Monday as Israeli authorities confirmed granting permission to plan the expansion of an Israeli settlement in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron.
Sixty-five percent of Israelis polled said they fear Palestinians, while 54% of Palestinians said they don’t fear Israelis.
The Israeli forces raided the towns of Beit Ummar and Beit Awwa near the city of al-Khalil (Hebron), and the village of Umm al-Sharayet near the city of Ramallah as well as the town of Tamun on Sunday night and early on Monday, Lebanon’s al-Ahed news website reported.
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There are now 7,000 Palestinians being held at Israeli jails and detention facilities, seven lawmakers being among them.
