Israel Advances Bill To Impose New Restrictions On Foreign-Funded Nonprofits

The Palestinians connect this wave of violence with diminishing hope among Palestinians for a future state, following almost fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip territories, home to over five million Palestinians, where they wish to establish a Palestinian state, in accordance with the two-state solution.

Israeli forces Wednesday handed a notice to demolish the family house of a Palestinian accused of perpetrating a shooting attack in late November in Deir Samet village, southwest of Hebron.

“The continued settlement growth raises honest questions about Israel’s long-term intentions and will only make separating from the Palestinians much more hard”, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a speech in Washington on December 6.

The Shin Bet said it had captured the suspects, and discovered an explosives lab in the Palestinian town of Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, in a joint operation with the Israeli military and police, adding the suspects tried to form a “military infrastructure” in order to orchestrate attacks against Israelis. Two Israeli soldiers were stabbed, and two Palestinian attackers were killed.

Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian brothers near the West Bank city of Nablus.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said the two Palestinians were relatives, one aged 17 and the other, 23.

“For these reasons, whenever an Israeli leader tries to promote the plans in E1, the worldwide community strongly condemns them”, the report said.

B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, said “The people who bear the brunt of the [punitive] demolitions are relatives – including women, the elderly, and children – whom Israel does not suspect of involvement in any offense”.

Violence has also been triggered by Muslim anger over stepped-up Israeli visits to Jerusalem’s al Aqsa mosque complex.

Shaked has said she was determined to crack down on those who take foreign money and then criticise Israel, accusing some NGOs of “eroding the legitimacy of Israel to exist as a Jewish and democratic state”. “There is no need to pay global prices for a process that does not have great significance”, a statement from the prime minister’s office said.