Elor Azaria sat in the defendant’s bench as his mother wrapped her arms around him to comfort him. An autopsy determined the shot to the head was the cause of death. The path will be long.
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Ahmed Manasra, a 13-year old Palestinian accused of taking part in the stabbing of two Israelis earlier this month, is escorted by Israeli security during a hearing at a Jerusalem court on October 30, 2015.
“We will not give up to the logic of brute force, policies of occupation and aggression practiced by the Israeli government and the herd of settlers who are engaged in terrorism against our people, our holy places, our homes, our trees and the execution of our children in cold blood, as they did with the child.and other children from Jerusalem”, he said.
However, a number of Israeli military officials had claimed that the Israeli trooper had acted in self-defense. Activists have released a handful of amateur videos supporting the Palestinian claims, but the Hebron shooting is perhaps the strongest evidence of Israeli wrongdoing so far. Washington has traditionally tempered statements by the so-called “Quartet” of mediators with careful diplomatic language, but the diplomats said the U.S.in this case will align itself closer to the positions of the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, who emphasize Israel’s role in the Mideast impasse.
The top brass of the Israeli military have condemned his actions, but rightwing politicians have argued that he has been unfairly treated. Some 48 percent answered positively and 45 percent negatively, making it a statistical dead heat with the 4.1 percent margin of error. She accused the court of convicting him of attempted murder instead of a lesser charge because of the current charged atmosphere in which any Palestinian teen who walks around with a knife could be shot or convicted of attempted murder.
Two elderly Jewish women were stabbed Tuesday by two masked assailants while walking on a popular promenade overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem in what is being called a terror attack.
Up to that time, about four Palestinian families lived in the building that was taken over Monday, said Daniel Luria of the Ateret Cohanim settler group.
“The three-story building, which is owned by Palestinian residents, is situated only 300 meters from the Al-Aqsa Mosque”, he said.
Luria said the property was purchased legally by an investor whom he would not identify.
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Tensions have heightened in the occupied territories since August 2015, when Israel imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
