Israeli soldiers raid West Bank refugee camp, prompting deadly clashes

After the troops arrived, hundreds of Palestinians gathered and many threw firebombs and rocks as the Israeli forces demolished the home.

The piece asserts that Israel organized the attacks because of recent moves by the European Union to label goods produced in Israeli West Bank settlements in an effort to isolate the Jewish state economically and to impose a two-state solution through the United Nations rather than work towards direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks and a man hunt was taking place in Belgium on Monday to apprehend suspects.

He also pointed to two cartoons posted on Fatah’s official Facebook page on Monday to illustrate how the PA is exploiting the massacre in France for its own purposes.

In reality, Jews living in Paris may have been targeted in the attacks, said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. One of the cartoons depicts an ISIS gunman atop a balcony, aiming a machine gun with the barrel gripped by Israeli PM Netanyahu.

Confrontations and clashes have erupted in the past over such demolitions, but they have rarely been as deadly as Monday’s at the Qalandiya refugee camp, just beyond a checkpoint leading from east Jerusalem to the occupied West Bank.

Osama Al-Najar, the Palestinian Health ministry spokesman, said a second Palestinian was killed Friday in clashes with Israeli military, near the city of Ramallah.

The Israeli army has been increasingly using undercover units known as mustarabeen, Israeli forces who dress up as Arabs to infiltrate communities and arrest wanted persons.

The Tel Rumeida suburb is the flashpoint for tensions between Palestinians and illegal Israeli settlers and military.

A survey released in September by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research showed 50% of Palestinians believed that Israel was intent on destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock to make way for a third Jewish temple.

When they could not find him, the soldiers ransacked and damaged the home, before detaining Abeer and confiscating 65,000 shekels ($16,597) from the house, Ghnemat said.

“The soldiers came into the camp out of nowhere, no one expected it, and before we knew it they were on all of our roofs and inside every tall building”, Taiya said.

An Israeli army spokesperson could only confirm five Palestinians were detained in Hebron district.

“If things are indeed as they seem to me today, the state of Israel will take appropriate steps against the Red Crescent”, which is a member of the ICRC, Netanyahu said in a statement. By then, he said, Laith had died. Abu Shaheen is now in an Israeli prison. His wife and two daughters lived there, residents said. “Shortly after, they withdrew from the camp, leaving my home in rubble”.

Israel recently revived the tactic of house demolitions, after a break of a decade, because of questions about its effectiveness as a deterrent and amid human rights concerns.

Since the start of October, when attacks against Israelis sharply increased, Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have repeatedly called for punitive measures against the family of attackers to be expedited and increased.

Israel has sought to expedite demolitions of suspects’ homes in response to the surge of violence that began in October. Ahmad will reportedly be held in a closed facility until prosecution. Participants were flying the flags of Fatah; of Hamas, the Islamic militant group; and the Palestinian flag.