Palestinian shot and killed after stabbing soldier

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.

ISRAELI forces demolished a Palestinian family’s home and sealed another in concrete yesterday in revenge for a recent spate of attacks.

Stabbing attacks have happened nearly daily over the past few months.

On Sunday, two other Israelis were indicted for other “price tag” attacks against Palestinians. The action resulted in the government of Israel to treat Jewish nationals accused of terror in the same manner as Arab terrorists.

Lawyers for the Duma defendants said they had given false confessions under torture in close-door interrogations – an allegation denied by Netanyahu and the Shin Bet security agency.

The attacker tried to stab police officers but failed and then attempted to flee but police shot him in the legs and arrested him, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a statement on Monday.

The brother of Saad Dawabsheh is one of these people.

In the same report, PCHR said, “Israeli forces continued to impose collective punishment measures on the Gaza Strip, which have escalated since the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, in which Hamas won the majority of seats of the Palestinian Legislative Council”.

The indictments came as Israel said it had broken up a ring of Jewish extremists wanted in a series of attacks on Palestinian and Christian targets. “We are a state of law, and we will enforce the law throughout the state of Israel and vis-a-vis all citizens of Israel”, Netanyahu said during his weekly cabinet meeting Sunday, referring to the Duma case. “We want to stress that we are against any and all violence against any person”. “If they really wanted to punish them, they would have done it the first day and would have told us from the beginning that it was them who killed our children”.

“Enforcing the law is the life’s breath of democracy, of the rule of law”.

More than 10 reported attacks have taken place at the junction, with at least six Palestinians and three Israelis killed over the period. The gunman, an Israeli Arab, is at large.

Palestinians cite the Duma incident as a factor in a three-month wave of attacks and clashes roiling the region, saying they are frustrated by years of unchecked settler violence.

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem), for its part, criticized the Israeli government’s policy of temporarily holding the bodies of Palestinians gunned down by security forces.