Israel arrests suspects in arson attack on Palestinian

Israel says demolitions act as a deterrent to potential attackers, while rights groups and Palestinians say it amounts to collective punishment, forcing family members to suffer for acts committed by someone else. They were killed in Tal Romeida neighborhood in the city by Israeli troops’ gunfire.

Two months have passed since the beginning of what some are calling a new Palestinian “Intifada” (uprising) in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a series of events that have left at least 109 Palestinians dead and thousands injured.

In separate incidents on Thursday, alleged attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank wounded an Israeli policeman, a soldier, and a bystander.

Nineteen Israelis and more than 100 Palestinians, mostly attackers, have been killed amid spiralling unrest.

The Shin Bet domestic security agency said arrests had been made in recent days of young men “suspected of belonging to a Jewish terror organisation and carrying out terror attacks”.

Palestinian anger over the Duma attack has been a factor fuelling a wave of street assaults on Israelis that erupted on October 1.

He said they were wounded by tank fire.

According to the Israeli military, the two were searched on a military roadblock, and after they were released, “they came back and stabbed a soldier in his face, before the army shot them dead”. Many of the Palestinian attackers in the past months of bloodshed have been from Hebron. The U.S. does not now recognize the Palestinian territories as an independent state, though the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in 2012 to recognize Palestine as a “non-member observer state”.

The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health confirmed that a Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli military forces near the village, which is located adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish. “Four months have passed since the arson attack against the Dawabsha family”, he said.

Most of the violence has been in the occupied West Bank but there have been semi-regular protests in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians have become frustrated over decades of failed peace talks and the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem.