Infant, two other Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attack

Later on Friday, another Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli police after he allegedly stabbed and moderately injured two Israelis in the occupied French hill neighborhood of East Jerusalem.

On Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said an eight-month-old baby had died in a West Bank village as result of inhaling teargas fired by the Israeli military in the area.

On Friday, Palestinians in Hebron said Israel had announced it would declare the area around the cave compound a “closed military zone” after the weekly Muslim prayers.

More than 50 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli gunfire in Gaza, and two were in a critical condition, medical sources said.

In the Gaza Strip, protesters clashed with Israeli forces along the northern and eastern borders.

Friday’s incidents were the latest in a series of Palestinian attacks that began in mid-September and were accompanied by widespread unrest, including clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli troops.

Interviewed separately, a resident of another house on al-Shuhada Street who was watching from a balcony said that she saw an Israeli civilian of the same description holding a firearm in the moments before the shooting, and that she had heard him cursing the Palestinian youth.

Israel’s Jerusalem Post reported that Bensouda told Abbas she was examining evidence to attest to whether the new round of violence and incitement between Israel and the Palestinians could be classified as war crimes within the ICC’s jurisdiction. In three separate instances this month, Israeli civilians shot or killed three people -an Eritrean national, an Israeli Jew, and a Palestinian citizen of Israel-and Israeli police later said the individuals were not attackers and had been targeted by “mistake”.

“There is now a big group of Conservative members of Parliament who are pro-Israel whatever government does and they are not interested in what Israel, in what the Israeli government does”.

The site is revered as the holiest in Judaism, known as the Temple Mount, and is the third-holiest site in Islam.

The city has seen frequent clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting against the occupation.

Israel has also rejected a proposal by New Zealand submitted to the United Nations security council, which demands Israel to freeze settlement construction and stop home demolitions and demands the Palestinians to freeze submitting files to the worldwide Criminal Court in order to resume negotiations.

Hebron, a stronghold of the Islamist movement Hamas and a powder keg in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is a city where 500 Israeli settlers live among Palestinians behind barbed-wire, observation towers and under army protection.

The Nobel Peace prize laureate who had signed the 1993 Oslo accords aimed at resolving the decades long Palestinian-Israeli conflict was shot dead in Tel Aviv at a peace rally.

An officer serving in Hebron told the Israeli daily Haaretz “we understand there’s something different here, something complex that is happening to Israel and that must be dealt with”.

A Palestinian stabbed and lightly wounded an American tourist in Jerusalem, where the wave of violence first erupted a month ago over the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a highly sensitive site sacred to both Muslims and Jews.

He added: “They’re not interested in the fact that Palestianians are living a repressed life, and are liable to be shot at any time”.