The first of the attacks occurred Friday morning, when two soldiers were injured after a Palestinian man rammed them with his auto outside the Maale Adumim settlement near Jerusalem. Firebombs and stones were been hurled at the troops by the Palestinians, as per the army.
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The Palestinian health ministry identified the assailant as 51-year-old Samir Seresi.
Several hours later, another Palestinian was shot dead after driving his auto into a group of soldiers, injuring five close to Beit Ummar settlement near Hebron in the southern West Bank, an army spokesman said.
Israeli police said that an Israeli settler who was in the area shot dead the Palestinian suspect following the incident.
Another Palestinian allegedly tried to stab Israeli border police in the northern West Bank on Thursday but was shot dead before harming anyone, Israeli police said. One of the boys, an eighteen year old from Abu Sneineh was taken to the police station, while the worldwide activists continued to monitor the events and ask for the age of the younger child who was still outside, detained by Israeli forces. The military said the buses were meant to ferry Palestinians to checkpoints for demonstrations.
Kerry left empty-handed. On Wednesday, Israeli media quoted an unnamed senior military officer as recommending that the Netanyahu government head off what he described as a “limited uprising” by admitting more Palestinian labourers, freeing low-risk Palestinian prisoners and further arming Abbas’s forces.
On his way to the airport, Kerry is said to have called Netanyahu and told him: “I’m out of ideas”, according to Haaretz. For the Palestinians, it means ending incitement to violence. Both the officer and the official spoke on condition of anonymity because the offer has not been made public.
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He said the PA would cease to abide by agreements signed with Israel, including the 1993 Oslo accords, claiming Israel had shown that it, too, was no longer committed to them, that the State of Palestine was under occupation and that Israel must “fully assume all its responsibilities as an occupying power”. That law imposes a minimum sentence of three years on rock throwers, and can strip them and the parents of minors of losing social security benefits. Palestinians accuse Israel of using excessive force in suppressing violence.
