American-Israeli dies of wounds from Palestinian attack on Jerusalem bus

In one incident, two Palestinians stabbed an Israeli in the West Bank, wounding him moderately before fleeing, the Israeli military said.

Israeli security forces, responding to the bus attack, shot dead one of the assailants and captured the other, police said.

Therefore I prefer to use the more correct term “Palestinian Arab” which allows for the reality of former Palestinian Jews who are now termed ‘Israeli’.

Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has adopted a resolution criticizing Israel for restricting worshipping in Al-Aqsa mosque and failing to protect Muslim heritage sites in the holy city of Al-Quds.

Muslim fears that Israel seeks to lift its long-standing ban on Jewish prayer at the site have fueled a three-week-old wave of Palestinian stabbings in Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and Israeli cities.

An intense diplomatic drive to calm spiralling violence that many fear heralds a new Palestinian intifada saw Israel agree on Saturday to install surveillance cameras at the highly sensitive holy site.

Muslim officials said Israeli police blocked them from installing security cameras at the site, despite the agreement.

They said the assailant stabbed his victim in the neck.

Although the site is also considered sacred by Jews, who believe it to be the site of two temples destroyed in ancient times, a 1967 decree issued by Israel’s chief rabbi forbade Jews from visiting the compound, which they refer to as the “Temple Mount”.

“This will provide comprehensive visibility and transparency, and that could really be a game changer in discouraging anybody from disturbing the sanctity of this holy site”, Kerry said.

The Egypt-based religious institution Al-Azhar Al-Sharif yesterday renewed its rejection of the temporal and spatial division of Al-Aqsa Mosque that Israel is seeking to impose.

The demonstrators were angry at the Israeli regime’s move to withhold the bodies of 11 Palestinians from al-Khalil killed this month.

Negotiations for a Palestinian state to be created in the occupied territories have collapsed, and on Monday at Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, Netanyahu said that while he doesn’t want Israel to become a binational state, “at this time we need to control all of the territory for the foreseeable future”.

Lakin’s death raised to 11 the number of Israelis killed in Palestinian attacks. The Israeli army had no immediate comment.

His son Micah Avni Lakin said he had been a big fan of social media, where young Palestinians have incited attacks, uploading videos and sharing the hashtag #Jerusalemintifada.

“And I am pleased that Prime Minister Netanyahu has reaffirmed Israel’s commitment to upholding the unchanged status quo of the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif both in word and in practice”.

Speaking at a special session of parliament Netanyahu said Rabin, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, “knew how to fight terrorism without making concessions and that is what we will do”.

In the 1960s, Lakin was active in the civil rights movement in the U.S., marching with Martin Luther King and bringing students from Boston to the South for sit-ins, Avni said.