Four Palestinians killed after alleged attacks

It is unusual for Palestinian security agents to be implicated in such attacks.

The driver was shot dead, it said.

“We have confirmed that a number of suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident that took place in Duma”, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

The Tel Aviv hospital treating Ahmed Dawabsheh, a second son who survived but was badly burned in the attack, denied Palestinian health ministry allegation that there had been a demand for the Palestinians to pay the hospital bill. Toddler Ali Dawabsheh was burned to death while his mother and father later died of their wounds.

Magen David Adom paramedics treated the two soldiers, both around 20 years old.

The terrorists started a fire at a Palestinian home in the Douma village on 31 July, burning alive an 18 month-old baby. “Four months have passed since the arson attack against the Dawabsha family”, he said. They did not say what rank he held in the PA’s security forces.

Also Thursday, a Palestinian gunman at a checkpoint in the West Bank shot at security personnel, the Israeli military said.

Abbas painted the two-month wave of almost daily attacks on Israelis as an organic, grassroots phenomenon, not as something dictated from above.

Since mid-September, 19 people have been killed on the Israeli side from Palestinian stabbings, shootings and vehicular attacks. Marco Rubio, said at the same forum that those calling for more sacrifices from Israel “are dead wrong, and they don’t understand the enduring bond between Israel and America”.

Tensions are running high between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces in the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli troops opened fire and killed a Palestinian man near the city of Ramallah on the same day after accusing him of being behind a stabbing attack that wounded an Israeli. Palestinians say it stems from a lack of hope of gaining statehood.

Bodies of alleged Palestinian attackers are kept by the Israeli government as an attempt to deter further attacks, but officials are severely divided on whether the policy is effective or not.

Early Thursday, the Israeli army demolished the home of a Palestinian accused of orchestrating the deadly shooting of an Israeli couple of October 1.

Israel claims Aliweh, who was later arrested, is a member of the militant group Hamas, but the group has not claimed responsibility for the attack.

The army said its forces fired at one man who entered its no-go zone close to the border fence but did not specify the type of fire. Their four young children in the back of the vehicle escaped unharmed.