Police Arrested Palestinian Who Killed Israeli Woman

The incident follows an attack on Sunday that saw a 38-year-old Israeli woman stabbed to death by a Palestinian who broke into her home in another West Bank settlement.

It is a point diplomats and human rights groups frequently make, identifying the fact that Palestinians are subject to Israeli military law as part of Israel’s 49-year occupation, while Israeli settlers are subject to civil law.

Israeli leaders on Tuesday sharply criticised US Ambassador Daniel Shapiro’s observation that the law in the occupied West Bank is applied differently to Palestinians and Israelis, calling it “unacceptable” and demanding a retraction. It also said Palestinians who work in settlements in the Hebron area were not allowed in on Monday.

Palestinians say that by contributing to the settlement economy, Airbnb, like other companies doing business there, is perpetuating the expansion of Israels settlement enterprise.

EU Ministers have reiterated the bloc’s position that the lands Israel has occupied since the 1967 Middle East war – including the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights – are not part of the internationally recognized borders of Israel. A statement that he qualified by adding that “too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes on unchecked”, which he attributes to Israel’s double standard and its “lack of thorough investigations”. Most countries regard the policy as illegal under worldwide law and a major obstacle to the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

The US ambassador complained that new “settler outposts are being legalised despite earlier pledges to the United States not to do so, while routine, administrative demolition of Palestinian structures continues”.

Palestinians want to form an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as the capital.

This public rebuke from Israel’s top ally has then incited an angry response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“We have a strong desire to maintain our and the Palestinians’ daily life, but we will not hesitate, if necessary, to ban the entry of Palestinian into [settlements]”, he said, according to Haaretz.

The European Union has also strongly opposed Israeli settlement activity and has made a decision to label products imported from those areas. Shapiro said that Washington was “concerned and perplexed” over Israel’s strategy of building West Bank settlements.

One of the notable features of the so-called Knife Intifada is the numerous knife attacks have been carried out by Palestinian women and children.