Israeli wounded in new West Bank stabbing: army

The attacker fled the scene and was being searched for, the Israeli military said. He was evacuated to hospital in serious condition.

MADA says Israeli forces violently assault photojournalists, prevent them from covering incidents and even delete their material because “Israel wants to hide the reality and does not want the journalists to deliver their message to the world”.

“Some of these people were stabbed, shot, and even beaten to death by members of the public, both Israeli and Palestinian”, High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein told President Abbas and members of the Council, which is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Palestinians are angry at increasing violence by Israeli settlers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and their attacks on Palestinian properties, saying that the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of the compound. “Two Israelis were shot at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron”, an army statement said.

The sources said that when the soldiers tried to arrest the suspect, he was carrying a knife and tried to stab one of the soldiers, adding that other soldiers immediately opened fire and killed him. A photo later showed nine bullet holes in the car’s back windshield.

Mrs al-Sharawi’s family claimed she been driving into a petrol station next to where the soldiers were standing in Halhul but the military said she attempted to plough her auto into them. On the Gaza-Israel border, a Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire on a confrontation between stone-throwers and Israeli troops, Gaza health officials said.

The latest unrest erupted in mid-September, with clashes at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site, and quickly spread.

Hundreds of Tunisians, including political figures, gathered in the capital Saturday for a demonstration called by the Islamist party Ennahda in support of the Palestinian “uprising” against Israel. Palestinians say the violence is rooted in a lack of hope for gaining independence after years of failed peace efforts.

Israeli forces were searching Palestinian homes in and around Hebron as well as setting up new checkpoints for vehicles and people, an AFP reporter said.

The incidents extended a five-week-old campaign of Palestinian attacks fueled in part by Muslim anger at stepped-up Jewish visits to a contested Jerusalem shrine, as well as by long-deadlocked peacemaking with Israel.