Palestinian driver shot dead after ramming Israeli officer: Israeli police
The legislation was first introduced months ago, before the current unrest began.
Arutz Sheva, a news site popular among Israel’s religious community and its largely rightist Russian immigrant population, on Thursday took down a video game on its children’s pages in which players used sticks and umbrellas to “neutralize” bearded and robed attackers bearing knives and guns.
Last month, Israeli forces arrested more than 1,500 Palestinians, the Israeli army stated.
The city of Hebron, in which the mosque is located, is home to roughly 160,000 Palestinian Muslims and about 500 Israeli settlers who live in heavily guarded compounds.
There are more than 6,500 Palestinians now languishing in detention facilities throughout Israel, according to official Palestinian figures.
Per the terms of an agreement with Israel, a Jordanian trust administers the site where only Muslims are allowed to pray.
They say that Israel has changed the status quo in 2000 by controlling one of the main gates leading to the mosque and imposing restrictions on the other mosque’s gates.
The cameras would provide a feed to the Wafq, the Jordanian organization that administers the site.
Since mid-September, 11 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, a lot of them stabbings, while 74 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including 47 who Israel said were involved in attacks or attempted attacks.
A Palestinian careened his vehicle into an Israeli Border Police officer north of Hebron on Wednesday in the latest terror attack to occur near the restive West Bank city.
Israel’s High Court suspended his detention on August 19 as he was given medical treatment following his hunger strike, which twice left him in a coma. But once his condition had improved, he was rearrested and relaunched his hunger strike.
Allan’s plight sparked outrage among Palestinians. His case brought attention to Israel’s policy of detaining suspects without trial or charge as well as a contentious force-feeding law that critics say amounts to torture.