Israel Frees Former Hunger Strike Palestinian

A Palestinian careened his auto into an Israeli Border Police officer north of Hebron on Wednesday in the latest terror attack to occur near the restive West Bank city.

According to Bennett, his visit to the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) was a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to escalate settlement construction activity in the Palestinian city. In the first 13 months, 332 Palestinians and 12 Israelis were killed.

The surge of unrest since early October has triggered fears of a third Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation by a generation gripped by despair and anger over stalled peace efforts.

Nine Israelis, 69 Palestinians – around half of them alleged attackers – and an Israeli Arab have been killed since October 1 in attacks in Jerusalem, the West Bank and elsewhere.

WAFA reported on security sources as explaining that Israeli soldiers broke into, searched and took photos for a house belonging to Mufid al-Ahmad in the Jenin city neighborhood of al-Jaberyat.

Israeli police and Palestinian protesters often clash there.

Israeli leaders have accused Palestinian political and religious leaders of inciting the violence.

The violence began with clashes at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Various Israeli security experts and Palestinian activists have attributed the attacks to incitement coming from all levels of Palestinian society, including government officials.

The assailants, believed to be Jewish extremists, lobbed a firebomb into the Dawabsheh home in the West Bank village of Duma, where the family of four was asleep.

Allan was arrested in November 2014 and held under a measure known as administrative detention, which allows imprisonment without trial for six-month periods renewable indefinitely.

On Wednesday, meanwhile, scores of Jewish settlers forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound where they tried to perform “Talmudic rituals”, a Palestinian official said. Palestinians “will not agree to the continuation of the situation on our lands…”

On Tuesday, the Israeli army attempted to storm a number of schools in the area, but the administrations stopped them. Video captured by Rabbis for Human Rights shows Ascherman scuffling for about a minute with the knife-wielding man, who at one point has Ascherman in a headlock.

“What goes around comes around and I think what happened to me was an inevitable result of what happens to Palestinians on an nearly daily basis”, he said.