Two Palestinians killed as Israeli forces destroy family home
Israel said it “hit” three Palestinians in response to gunfire fire as troops demolished the home of Mohammed Abu Shahin, who Israel accuses of shooting dead an Israeli settler in the West Bank in June.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military on Saturday demolished the West Bank homes of four Palestinians who it said had carried out deadly attacks against Israelis.
The brother of the alleged attacker who lived in the next building said “Israeli forces came and told my family we have to leave immediately because of a court decision to destroy (the house)”.
Israeli undercover forces on Tuesday detained three Palestinian schoolchildren from the Ras al-Amud area of Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, witnesses said. 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.
The IDF Spokesman’s Office said the soldiers shot and killed one terrorist and arrested two others at the scene.
There has been a surge of street violence since the beginning of October, with at least 14 Israelis killed in stabbings and shootings or being run down by cars.
Thousands of Palestinians joined the procession yesterday from Ramallah to the Qalandia camp for the joint funeral.
The Israelis said France had not learned the lessons of earlier operations in Paris by armed Islamists against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket that left 17 dead. Abu Shaheen is now in an Israeli prison. The United Nations says almost one in five residents is unemployed.
While the world mourns for Paris, the Palestinian official media makes the ridiculous claim that Israel was behind Friday’s attacks.
Adnan al-Husseini, the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem (al-Quds), blamed Israel’s occupation for the violence.
The rest were killed in clashes with security forces in the West Bank.
On the razing of homes, Robert Piper, United Nations coordinator for humanitarian aid for the Palestinian territories, said that “punitive demolitions are inherently unjust, punishing innocent people for the acts of others”.
It was unclear if a third Palestinian was killed.