Israeli military seals off Palestinian attackers’ village

Despite Hamas’s recent pronouncements that its tunnels reach into Israeli territory and it is working to launch “high-quality” terror attacks against Israelis from the West Bank, “our stance is clear: we don’t want an escalation [of violence] and we don’t want war”, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In a subsequent statement released later on Wednesday, however, Israeli police said that one of the two injured female soldiers – Hadar Cohen, 19 – had succumbed to injuries sustained in the attack.

“Over the past two and a half weeks, we’ve seen disturbances and we’ve seen attacks taking place including using explosive devices”.

Israel has deployed a series of measures in a bid to crack down on the violence.

Authorities said the men were carrying knives, along with three automatic weapons and two pipe bombs. According to figures obtained by the municipality, 17 Palestinian families were kicked out of their homes, with 15 others undergoing eviction proceedings and 70 more under the threat of eviction.

Jamal drove his auto into a group of several Israelis waiting at a bus stop in Jerusalem, then then exited his vehicle with a meat cleaver and began attacking them, killing 60 year old Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky, and seriously wounding two others.

“Jerusalem shootout kills one officer and 3 Palestinian assailants” is categorized as “world”.

The sources told the Post all three suspects hailed from the town of Qabatiya in the Jenin area of the northern West Bank.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has once again reached out to Hamas as part of reconciliation efforts between his Fatah party and the terror organization, Abu Toameh reported.

The report came as a wave of violence, which started in October, had claimed the lives of 26 Israelis, a US citizen and more than 160 Palestinians.

Mosques across the Palestinian enclave mourned those killed, calling them “Martyrs of the Preparation”, a reference to their work digging tunnels used to attack Israel.

Some analysts say Palestinian frustration with Israeli occupation, the complete lack of progress in peace efforts and their own fractured leadership have fed the unrest.

Palestinian members of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement carry the body of fellow militant Ahmed Al-Zahar during his funeral in the village of Al-Moghraga near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip yesterday.