Israelis killed in West Bank as Palestinians shot dead

The Israeli military say the gunman opened fire on the auto carrying the father, son and other members of the family.

After Friday prayers in Gaza hundreds of Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli soldiers on the border.

A still from security camera footage shows Israeli gunmen disguised as Palestinians, a few as women, raiding al-Ahli hospital in Hebron on 12 November, where they summarily executed Abdallah al-Shalalda. Local media identified him as Hassan al-Baw. Then came Friday’s killings.

Twelve Israelis have been killed in a spate of attacks by Palestinians, while 78 Palestinians have been killed, 50 of them said by Israel to be attackers, and the remainder killed in clashes with Israeli forces.

Palestinians and Jews in this city see no end to the bloodshed.

Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency later arrested five Palestinians it said were part of a Hamas cell that had carried out the attack. Schlissel moved into a heavily guarded compound 13 years ago after Palestinians butchered her father in his home in Hebron.

The European Union has put in place new rules for the labeling of products originating from areas in Palestine that are under Israeli control since 1967. “I feel more violence is coming”.

“The situation is very bad here”, Issa Amro, coordinator of the Hebron-based Youth Against Settlements activist group, said by phone.

Such raids have been increasingly common amid the recent crackdown on Palestinians, with Israeli checkpoints making it increasingly hard for Palestinians to access neighborhood hospitals, and have been pressuring hospital staff to turn over people wounded in military raids.

Dozens of Palestinians participated in demonstrations that turned into violent clashes with the Israeli army.

At least one other person, a teenager, was wounded in the same attack, Bin said.

Every incident merely worsens the feelings of distrust.

In Budrus, a village in the central occupied West Bank, Israeli forces shot dead 22-year-old Lafi Awwad on Friday afternoon, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health.

Hadas Ziv, a spokeswoman for Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, agreed that hospitals are not immune, but she said military activity must be proportionate to the threat in question.

Before the crackdown, there was a weekly average of 78 Israeli army “search and arrest operations” carried out across the occupied West Bank in 2015, according to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, however there has recently been a sharp increase in such operations. “But to kill another one – this is I think double crime”.

The director of the Al-Ahli hospital, Jehad Shawar, said that about 20 to 30 men arrived at the facility early on Thursday in two vans, according to Reuters. Another time, they entered an east Jerusalem hospital to confiscate documents.