Two Palestinians stabbed and moderately wounded an Israeli soldier north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank Tuesday before being shot dead, the army said.
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The Israeli military said that soldiers had approached two Palestinians they found acting suspiciously at a junction near a Jewish settlement. Israel also said the United Nations must condemn Palestinian stabbing and shooting attacks that have left 11 Israelis dead in the past month.
He spoke amid new violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
“When the Israeli prime minister tries to absolve Adolf Hitler from his ugly crimes, against the Jews, and blame Palestinians for these crimes, he is trying thereby to justify the crimes committed against the Palestinian people”, he said, according to an official translation of his remarks, which were delivered in Arabic.
Amnesty worldwide reported on Tuesday that it had documented in depth at least four incidents in which Palestinians were deliberately shot dead by Israeli forces when they posed no imminent threat to life, in what appeared to have been extrajudicial executions.
Netanyahu’s bid to outlaw the organisation could be shot down by legal experts and the Shin Bet, Israel’s security service, has said the move could end up sparking further violence.
But Abbas said Wednesday that “it is no longer useful to waste time in negotiations” and warned that a continuation of the current violence could “kill the last shred of hope for the two-state-solution-based peace”.
Palestinians have repeatedly accused Israeli security forces of implementing a shoot-to-kill policy.
Israel’s legal system had already been dealing with claims of excessive use of force.
Many Palestinians explain their fear of encroaching Israeli influence at Al-Aqsa by comparing it to the restructuring of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron, where Jewish and Muslim worshipers are both allowed to visit, albeit separately.
Benjamin NetanyahuIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit out at an Arab Israeli lawmaker’s defiance Wednesday of a ban on visits by members of parliament to the highly sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.
“What is required is the ending of occupation”, he said, insisting that was “the root” of the problems plaguing Palestinians and Israelis alike.
Deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely said in excerpts from a TV interview to be broadcast Tuesday that the site holy to both Muslims and Jews was “the centre of Israeli sovereignty, the capital of Israel”.
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On the same day, the Israeli authorities prevented several women from entering Al-Aqsa while confiscating the identity cards of a number of other Palestinians before allowing them to enter the site. “The visits by Jews to the Temple Mount will be maintained; there will be no change, as with the prayer arrangements for the Muslims”.
