Israeli Girl Hurt After Jerusalem Stabbing Attempt

The Israeli military says forces are demolishing and sealing off the Jerusalem homes of two Palestinians involved in deadly attacks against Israelis in the city past year.

After five long months awaiting an indictment, Israeli prosecutors indicted on Sunday, two Jewish terrorists responsible for the arson attack on a Palestinian home on July 31, 2015.

Yet, the lawyer of one of the criminals said that his client’s confession was forced due to sleep deprivation and being tied upside down by his interrogators.

It said that Israeli police registered the attack against an “unknown” suspect, although surveillance cameras in the area prove that it was carried out by settlers.

Tensions have been simmering in the occupied territories for over three months now.

Israel’s Shin Bet security service said Sunday that the suspects admitted to carrying out the Duma attack, saying it was in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli settler by Palestinians a month earlier.

Nasser Dawabsheh, Saad’s brother, said the indictments were not enough. The gunman, an Israeli Arab, is at large.

Since the current round of Israeli-Palestinian violence erupted in mid-September, at least 131 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire.

Israeli leaders says Islamist groups who call for the destruction of Israel have played a major role in inciting the recent violence.

Twenty-one Israelis and a USA citizen have died in the latest bloodshed – a number that could rise if police deem a Tel Aviv shooting rampage that killed two people on Friday (January 3) as a pro-Palestinian attack.

The case has revived criticism from rights groups which say there is a culture of impunity in Israel that allows attacks on Palestinians.

According to another report from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 85 percent of Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is under Israeli control.

A novel about a Israeli-Palestinian romance that was banned at secular state schools in Israel is a runaway best-seller. She was moderately wounded and troops were searching for the shooter.

Thousands of Palestinians attended a funeral on Sunday for two young men who were recently killed by Israeli security forces and whose bodies were temporarily held by the Israeli authorities.

“I don’t have any other place to live”, Allyan’s father Mohammed told AFP.