Eritrean Man Killed After Soldier Is Shot in Israel

The Eritrean agricultural worker was named by his employer as Mila Abtum.

In the video, a masked fighter praised Arabs who are attacking Israelis, describing them as “lone wolves who refused to be subdued and spread fear among the sons of Zion”. “We’re a nation of laws”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he seeks no change to the decades-old status quo at the holy compound, which is also revered by Jews as the site where two biblical temples once stood. Jewish ultranationalists have been pushing the Israeli government to allow Jewish prayer on the compound outside al-Aqsa.

Palestinians in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza have been protesting for weeks against what they say are Israeli restrictions on their freedom of movement and rights, unchecked violence by settlers and a collapse in peace negotiations.

“Israel understands the importance of the status quo and … our objective is to make sure that everyone understands what that means”, Kerry told a news conference in Madrid.

“Over the last eight years we’ve seen a massive increase in penetration of mobile technology and digital literacy among Palestinians”. “It has been Osama Bin Laden meets [Facebook founder] Mark Zuckerberg”. Palestinian religious leaders have called for these attacks, and Israel has said its counterattacks have been defensive in nature. “This intifada [uprising] will not stop, this Jihad will not stop”, he said at a public ceremony.

The Islamic State militant group released a video urging: “Jihad should not be a reaction that may soon fade away”. On Monday, they said there had been no other attacker and an investigation had been opened into the Eritrean man’s death. Zerhoma died of his wounds after an Israeli security guard fired at him, apparently thinking he was an assailant.

The statement said the “cruel lynching” of the Eritrean asylum seeker who was mistaken for a terrorist, and accidentally shot by a security guard and then brutally beaten by a mob of bystanders, was a result of the same atmosphere. Zerhom later died at a hospital. “The country is in a state of chaos. No one will take the law into his own hands”, he told his party.

On Sunday, Israel controversially began erecting a temporary wall between the east Jerusalem Palestinian neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber and Jewish neighbourhood Armon Hanatziv to protect it from firebomb and stone attacks.

In addition to his meetings with Abbas and Netanyahu, Kerry also said he would be meeting this week in Europe with the foreign ministers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Russian Federation to discuss the crisis in Syria and the need for a political transition to end the conflict.

The basic criticism of the Netanyahu government by the Left (what’s left of it) is that the prime minister and his even more hawkish colleagues aren’t doing enough to help bring about the so-called two-state solution.

Hanan Ashrawi, Executive Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said in a news briefing in Ramallah that “another generation of Palestinian young men and women, born under occupation and enduring its ruthlessness and cruelty, have again engaged in popular resistance to send a clear message to Israel and the world”.