Israeli police say bomb attack thwarted in Jerusalem

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the town of Qabatia, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, demolished one home and injured at least four Palestinians by live fire.

The attacker’s condition was not immediately known.

The two soldiers’ wounds were not life threatening, according to an army spokesman.

The Palestinian natives of Masafer Yatta (hamlets of Yatta) are exposed to recurrent car-ramming attacks by Israeli settlers who drive their vehicles on a nearby bypass road built on their land.

A Palestinian man in his 20s was stopped on Sunday morning while attempting to board the Jerusalem Light Rail with a bag containing pipe bombs that police said he planned to detonate.

Israel says the violence is fueled by a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement.

The ministry condemned the Israeli policy, which aims to expand and take over Palestinians’ property and called on the worldwide community to intervene and force Israel to cease its measures, which would eventually destroy the two-state solution and enforce occupation, settlements and the Apartheid system in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Abu Zeid is said to have been involved in an attack in Jerusalem in February that killed an Israeli paramilitary police officer.

In their decision, the High Court justices wrote that Abu Zeid played a “very significant role” in the attack.

The unrest has been marked by a surge of small-scale attacks carried out by Palestinian individuals – predominantly on Israeli military targets – which have left 32 Israelis dead, with the majority of suspected Palestinian attackers shot dead on site.

Clashes erupted when the military convoy arrived, with Israel’s military saying soldiers responded after being targeted by Molotov cocktails and fire from improvised guns.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a year ago expedited home demolitions of Palestinian attackers in a bid to deter the violence.

Rights groups and Palestinians condemn the practice as collective punishment that forces family members to pay for the crimes of others.