Palestinian plows into crowded Jerusalem bus stop, injures nine, is shot dead

The ministry said the attorney general had requested the investigation into claims the policeman shot at the 16-year old girl after she’d already been held.

Of the rest, 13% believe the situation will develop into both an increase in violence and peaceful protests, 19% said the confrontation will remain as it is, and 10% were of the opinion that the attacks will eventually just fade away.

Those remarks followed Kerry’s late November trip to Jerusalem and Ramallah, where he failed to secure an agreement on confidence-building measures between Netanyahu and Abbas to curb a surge of violence that spiked this fall during demonstrations and Palestinian stabbing attacks.

“The Palestinian public thinks Abbas does not support the current confrontation and is not serious (pursuing) diplomatic confrontation with Israel, which is why he is losing support”, Khalil Shikaki, head of the PSR, told AFP. All are being treated at a hospital in Jerusalem. For example, the current campaign that uses individual civilians wielding vehicles, rocks or knives to attack Israeli civilians (who are less likely to be armed or able to fight back that soldiers or police) is described as more effective that traditional methods.

In the latest unrest, Israeli forces shot a young Palestinian woman Sunday after she allegedly attempted to stab a pedestrian in the West Bank.

Tensions have been high between several hundred Israeli settlers who live in the heart of Hebron under heavy military guard and some 200,000 Palestinian residents.

A Palestinian protester throws a bottle filled with paint at an Israeli army bulldozer during clashes following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on August 21, 2015. No injuries were reported. Many sympathize with calls by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas for Israel’s destruction. There were no immediate reports of casualties.