Beersheba terrorist identified as Israeli-Arab from Bedouin town of Hura

Thousands of security personnel have been deployed by Israel, following a series of terror attacks by Palestinian assaulters.

Jerusalem remained tense but calm as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his cabinet, which as in recent weeks advanced tighter legislation to counter the spate of Palestinian knifing and other attacks.

According to Yoram Halevy, police commander of Israel’s southern district, the assailant entered the closed and guarded complex that houses the city’s central bus station as well as shops and restaurants, and fatally shot a soldier.

The killing was roundly condemned by Israeli leaders.

A statement posted on the Israel Police website said the attack on the downed man was a “very grave” incident and that it would “not allow citizens to take the law into their own hands”.

An Eritrean asylum seeker was mistaken for a Palestinian during a shooting attack at the Be’er Sheva bus station Sunday night.

Footage from the station showed at least one Israeli soldier kicking Zarhum in the head as he lay bleeding on the floor of the terminal.

Security forces sealed the area and looked for other possible terrorists involved in the attack.

The autopsy report is significant because if true it would mean the mob members who beat Zarhum, slammed a bench down on his defenseless body and savagely kicked him can’t be charged with murder or manslaughter. “The Israeli authorities expressed their condolences to the Eritrean ambassador”.

Activists, asylum seekers and refugee advocates in Israel are pointing to the incitement directed toward African asylum seekers – by politicians, state institutions and the media – as necessary context for the vigilante mob and shooting that killed an Eritrean asylum seeker. The police did not dismiss the possibility of an accomplice who would have helped him carry on the attack.

Zerhom reportedly worked at a plant nursery.

Official figures show 45,000 illegal immigrants are in Israel, nearly all from Eritrea and Sudan.

Tekeste advised Eritrean citizens in Israel to exercise caution when they move around in the country. With rare exceptions, it has not recognized them as refugees or given them work visas. “It’s one more aspect of our security measures”. Security officers arrested one of Mr.al-Okbi’s relatives on suspicion that he assisted the attacker, Ms. Samri said. The violence quickly spread to the rest of Jerusalem, across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The clashes were fueled by Palestinian allegations that Israel seeks to change the status quo banning Jewish prayer at the site, allegations Israel denies.