Soldier wounded in West Bank stabbing; 2 assailants killed

Israel said the alleged attacker seriously wounded a soldier.

A military spokesman said they had been killed.

Samarah, who grew up in Jerusalem’s Old City, said he now fears that Israel is plotting to take away his residency rights, which include unemployment assistance of about $600 a month.

Ramallah:The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) says Israeli soldiers “kidnapped” over 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in October. An Israeli proposal that would potentially strip tens of thousands of Palestinians in Jerusalem of their residency rights has sent shudders through the targeted Arab neighborhoods _ areas that were dumped outside Israel’s separation barrier a decade ago, even though they’re within the city’s boundaries.

One of the measures agreed last week was the installation of cameras at the compound. Israeli forces fired live and rubber-coated bullets, and also used tear gas and stun grenades, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported.

The details are to be worked out between officials from the site’s administrator – the Islamic Trust, or Waqf – and Israeli authorities, said a senior Jordanian government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with briefing regulations.

Newton, Mass.-native Richard Lakin, 76, died of wounds sustained on October 13, when two Palestinian men boarded a bus in Jerusalem, and began shooting and stabbing passengers, killing 11 Israelis.

Meanwhile the commemorations of the 20-year anniversary of the assassination of peace-seeking Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Monday threw into stark relief the failure to resolve the conflict and divisions within Israel on how to do so.

He told Voice of Palestine radio on Sunday that Israel was planning to use such footage to arrest Muslim worshippers it believes are “inciting” hatred against it. There was no immediate comment from Abbas.

Increasing numbers of religious Jews visiting the compound, which is Islam’s holiest site outside Saudi Arabia and revered in Judaism as the location of two destroyed biblical temples, have led to Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a “status quo” under which Jewish prayer there is banned.

Secretary of State John Kerry said these cameras would provide comprehensive visibility and transparency and “could really be a game changer in discouraging anybody from disturbing the sanctity of this holy site”.

In return for empowering the Waqf and enabling East Jerusalem leaders to voice their population’s needs, the Israeli government should be able to secure free, undisturbed access for non-Muslims to the site and a sustained calm at the Esplanade. Nine Israelis have been stabbed or shot dead by Palestinians. Police said the operation must be coordinated and approved at a “diplomatic level”.

They claimed the girl had made an attempt to stab an Israeli soldier with a knife.

Efforts to douse Israeli-Palestinian tensions over Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound by installing cameras at the site ran into trouble Monday, as more knife attacks against Israelis saw two Palestinians shot dead.

An Israeli Jew and an Eritrean have also been killed after being mistaken for attackers.

It was the latest incident in weeks of nearly daily Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces. In the past five weeks, 10 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings, while 51 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including 30 said by Israel to be attackers and the rest in clashes.