Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his security officials to consider changing rules which govern when soldiers can shoot Palestinian stone throwers, according to Wednesday reports.
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Under durable prescription, Israeli marines dealing with harsh Palestinian strikes opens flames along with living points in deadly occurances.
“This rightist Israeli fanatic authorities is pursuing its felony coverage to kill Palestinians“. “Rejecting this agreement would not be sending a signal of resolve to Iran, it would be broadcasting a message so puzzling that most people across the globe would find it impossible to comprehend”, Kerry told lawmakers and civil leaders at the National Constitution Center. For example, during Nakba Day protests in May 2014, CCTV footage captured the deaths of two Palestinian youths being shot and killed in Beitunia near Ramallah at a time when they were not involved in the ongoing protest.
Calls for tougher punishments against stone throwers mounted after a video was posted last week that showed a masked Israeli soldier being hit and bitten by relatives of a Palestinian boy, accused of throwing stones, who the soldier had in a headlock. However, many Israelis on social media suggested that the soldier should have used his assualt rifle, according to Reuters.
The argument about what the kid and the Palestinians did or what the soldier was trying to do is an opportunity for all sides in the century-old war between the two peoples to trot out familiar talking points.
The police presence in Jerusalem is to be increased by hundreds of officers, and security personnel along a main access route to the capital will also be boosted, in response to Palestinian stoning attacks and other security incidents.
But let’s also be honest about the reason why Palestinians of any age are demonstrating or, the boys did, throwing rocks. In no less than 4 of these incidents, Israel stated the kids had been throwing rocks or petrol bombs, in accordance to S’Tselem. The Palestinian was subsequently arrested.
Palestinian officials condemn this practice as an encroachment on the limited self-rule they hold in parts of the West Bank.
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Since 2011, three Israelis, including a baby and a girl, have been killed in the West Bank after rocks were thrown at vehicles they were traveling in.
