Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron after allegedly stabbing and lightly wounding an Israeli soldier, the Israeli army has said.
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Donald Trump evaded specific questions about whether Palestinian demands in peace negotiations are legitimate and whether Israel should be allowed to build settlements in the West Bank without restrictions, though he said the Israeli housing projects were a “huge sticking point” in talks. They were killed in Tal Romeida neighborhood in the city by Israeli troops’ gunfire.
In separate incidents on Thursday, attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank injured an Israeli policeman, a soldier and a bystander, and two Palestinian alleged attackers were shot dead.
Eyewitnesses said that hundreds of settlers gathered at the shooting scene, while police denied Palestinians’ access for a period of time.
An Israeli soldier shoots a Palestinian holding a knife after he stabbed another Israeli soldier, seen kneeling, during clashes in Hebron, West Bank, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015.
Funeral of Sa’ad Dawabsha, second victim of the July 31 firebombing attack on a Palestinian village.
Muslim culture requires that a body be buried as soon after death as possible, but Israeli authorities have prevented the families of numerous Palestinians killed in the last two months from retrieving the bodies of their loved ones for burial.
The army said the attack took place at a checkpoint.
Palestinian officials said that even if these suggestions were adopted, they still would not be enough to change the climate between Israelis and Palestinians. “Israel’s record of seldom holding perpetrators of violence against Palestinians to account speaks for itself”.
A police announcement on Thursday that several “youths belonging to a Jewish terror group” were in custody stirred speculation of a breakthrough in the killing of three members of the Dawabsheh family, which raised Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Friday that investigators were still collecting evidence about the July attack, in which a Palestinian home in the village of Duma was torched.
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Israel blames the violence on incitement by Palestinian leaders and on social media sites.
