Israeli Soldier Lightly Wounded in Gush Etzion Stabbing

The time it has taken Israel to crack down on the Jewish militants, compared to the speedy and sometimes lethal response by state security forces to similar actions by Arabs, has angered Palestinians, contributing to a wave of stabbing, car-rammings, and shooting attacks against Israelis since October 1.

Israel arrested four Jewish men suspected of being among them.

In Tel Aviv a separate search continued for an Arab Israeli who killed two people in a pub and then killed an Arab taxi driver while on the run.

Israel says the violence is being fanned by a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement.

A Palestinian attacker stabbed an Israeli soldier Tuesday in the West Bank, lightly wounding him before troops at the scene shot and killed the assailant, the military said.

The Shin Bet internal security service held suspects under administrative detention, denied some of them the right to see a lawyer part of the time and used physical force during investigations.

Palestine joined the ICC in April and already handed over two files documenting alleged Israeli crimes during 2014 Israeli Operation Protective Edge as well as Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

He said the main suspect was connected to several other attacks, including the burning of a church in Jerusalem, two attacks in another village, the torching of a Palestinian taxi and the arson of a storage room in a Palestinian home. Mr Ben-Uliel’s parents said they believe in his innocence and that he was tortured during interrogation.

Saad Dawabsha’s brother, Naser, said he hoped the defendants would receive the maximum penalty, but was sceptical of Israel’s seriousness in prosecuting the case.

Authorities found the words “price tag” on the walls of the Dawabsheh house in the village of Duma, Israeli police said.

Also on Monday, two Palestinian teens who were acting suspiciously near Herod’s Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City were discovered to be carrying knives.

“I doubt such confessions will stand up in court”, their lawyer Hai Haber said.

The Yesha council, an umbrella group of West Bank settlements, commended the indictment and said the suspects do not represent it.

In a statement Sunday, a settlers group praised the indictments, saying it was “now clear that these acts were perpetrated by a fringe group of anarchists bent on destroying the State of Israel and the freedom and justice that it represents”.