Tony Blair launches new Middle East peace initiative
The Shin Bet internal security service said on Sunday, the suspect admitted to being involved in Friday’s attack, in which a Rabbi and his son were killed as they were driving with their family south of the city of Hebron, Associated Press reports.
Israeli forces have arrested a Palestinian suspect in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed two Israelis in the occupied West Bank.
The shooting was the latest escalation in two months of Palestinian attacks, mainly stabbings, which have killed 14 Israelis.
9 letter was another fabrication by him and his “Al-Nabka” group to place blame for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Israel.
At the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual conference this week in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was still in favor of “two states for two peoples”.
Palestinians are furious at the settler violence and a plan by Israelis to change the status quo of the al-Aqsa Mosque, which is Islam’s third holiest site after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.
“Our ambulance reached the scene, and the military refused to allow them and threatened them and told them to leave”, he said.
Speaking at a symposium on the “Future of Palestinian National Project’ yesterday, Bishara said owing to their preoccupation with many other issues, it was doubtful if the Arab leaders have been able to focus wholly on the issue of the statehood for Palestine even though they have been deliberating on the same at intervals”.
Further raising tensions, security camera footage emerged Thursday showing Israeli special forces disguised as Palestinian civilians raiding a hospital to arrest a Palestinian the military said had seriously wounded an Israeli in a knife attack.
These also include minimum jail terms for Palestinian stone-throwers, looser rules of engagement for the army and withholding the bodies of alleged attackers to prevent funerals from becoming political rallies.
Friday saw three Palestinians die after being shot by troops. Palestinians say the violence is due to a lack of hope for gaining independence.
The EU’s new differentiation strategy is about separating the democratic and internationally recognized Israel within the 1967 borders from what is increasingly referred to by Peter Beinart and others as the non-democratic and non-recognized Israel, which is the occupation, primarily of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), but also of the Golan Heights.