Only residents, tourists, business owners and students living in the Old City will be granted access to Jerusalem’s Old City over the next two days.
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The toddler’s mother, 22, was in critical condition. He had written on his Facebook page: “Either martyrdom or victory”. After the couple and their children were found, Israeli forces were soon out doing a search for the killers, checking vehicles that were in the area of the double shooting.
Islamic Jihad, militant group claims Halani was one of their members.
Videos posted online by Palestinian activists on Saturday purported to show Israeli settlers hurling boulders and flaming tires at Palestinians in the West Bank.
Throngs of Palestinians took to the streets on Thursday night to celebrate the brutal slaying of an Israeli couple in a shooting attack in the West Bank.
While several Palestinian armed factions praised Thursday’s attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “it will not pass without a response” during a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday.
Israeli settlers have, in recent years, carried out various attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank and East al-Quds. Israeli leaders have condemned the speech as incitement.
“His Government is weak and has completely failed to take care of their security and his national mission of preserving the peace and security of Jerusalem“.
A few 300,000 Palestinians live in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, where the Old City is located.
“Jewish settlers attacked villages near the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jenin, Tulkarem, Nablus and Hebron”, one witness told Anadolu Agency.
Local sources said that Israeli policemen fired seven bullets at 19-year-old Fadi Alloun, an athlete from Issawiya district, and killed him immediately.
“Police were here, but barely controlled the situation”. He then shot at the police before he was later killed. The latest round broke out following Israel’s decision on September 9 to bar an Islamist protest group from entering the site.
Israeli forces and Palestinians have been clashing at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound for weeks.
Jerusalem’s Old City has also been the site of frequent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police since September 13 because of heavy restrictions on entry to the revered Al-Aqsa mosque compound during a series of Jewish holidays.
Earlier on Saturday, two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men were stabbed to death in a similar attack near the Western Wall in Old Jerusalem.
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Tensions have flared over Jewish visits to the holy site which are permitted under a “status-quo agreement” in which Muslims administer the compound while Israel is responsible for security.
