Israeli police gun down Palestinian

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday that Netanyahu had ordered contacts frozen until a “reassessment process is completed”.

Dozens of Palestinians were Sunday injured by rubber-coated metal bullets at the northern entrance of al-Bireh while others suffocated by inhaling teargas during clashes with Israeli army forces in Beit Ummar.

Early on Sunday, a 38-year-old Palestinian stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli border police officer at Damascus Gate, a main entrance point for Palestinians to east Jerusalem’s Old City and the site of several previous attacks. “It is irrational and does not contribute to a solution [to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict], but causes damage”, said Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.

Israel’s foreign ministry also had warned that labeling products would lead to Israeli questions about an European Union role in future peace negotiations, although all sides concede peace negotiations aren’t imminent.

Israeli forces subsequently stormed the local Ein al-Lozeh medical center searching for the boy’s body, but were reportedly unable to find it, the information center said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Foreign Ministry to suspend contacts with the European Union over the Israel-Palestinian peace process because of the bloc’s decision to label goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

He said work permits would be withdrawn from the families of alleged attackers and there would be “no limits” on the powers of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, where some 400,000 Jewish settlers live among 2.8 million Palestinians.

The violence erupted in mid-September over tensions at Al-Aqsa Mosque compund.

Red Crescent officials said a rubber-coated bullet fired by Israeli security forces struck one of their ambulances. The military said the buses were meant to ferry Palestinians to checkpoints for demonstrations against Israeli troops.

She has made the revival of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks a diplomatic priority since assuming her post in November previous year.

Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that the EU’s decision is “a shameful step, giving a prize to terrorism and the people behind it”. “The peace process with the Palestinians broke down early last yr, so the sensible implications of the announcement weren’t instantly clear”.

Israel has already announced it will fortify an existing fence west of Hebron as a security measure.