The group has been one of the most vocal in its criticism of Israeli policies in Hebron, parts of which have been declared a military zone after two weeks of heightened tension, which has made it a hotspot for violence, with nearly daily clashes between Palestinian youth and soldiers.
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Near Hebron, a 72-year-old Palestinian woman tried to ram her auto into a group of Israeli soldiers, a military spokeswoman said. Israeli security forces launched a manhunt for the attackers.
Israeli police make formal extradition requests to the Palestinian Authority, including for terrorist suspects, but in the vast majority of cases in recent years the PA rejected them.
Yesterday six Israelis were wounded in three separate attacks by Palestinians in the West Bank.
The man rammed his auto into a bus stop where Israelis commonly hail cars for rides before getting shot and killed by Israeli forces.
The third incident saw an Israeli settler stabbed while shopping in the West Bank village of Nabi Ilyas, with two alleged Palestinian assailants fleeing afterwards, the Israeli defence ministry said.
The place has been the site of infamous massacres, cited to this day by both sides: the 1929 Palestinian mob that killed 67 Jews and the 1994 mass shooting by American-born Israeli Baruch Goldstein, who killed 29 Arabs before he was beaten to death.
Friday’s unrest broke a brief lull in the wave of deadly attacks and violent protests throughout October that raised fears of a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israeli occupation.
Hebron has 200,000 Palestinian residents with about 500 Israeli settlers living in the centre, protected by an army-patrolled buffer zone.
Amro says he didn’t see a knife on the man, but he believes he posed no threat to either settlers or soldiers.
Israeli authorities claim to have a note from Rasha asking her parents to forgive her, but her parents say the handwriting did not belong to their daughter.
“So I told her she could not enter”. The magnitude of the hatred surprised us, police deputy commander Yisrael Tal told Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth last week.
A report, issued by the Detainees and ex-Detainees Affairs Committee in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said that many Israeli jails and detention centers are getting overcrowded.
Most-recently focussed in the West Bank, the violence has been escalating for weeks.
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Prior to leaving Israel yesterday, Netanyahu said his talks in Washington will focus on maintaining “Israel’s comparative advantage in a changing Middle East”, as well as “stabilizing the situation” with the Palestinians.
