Palestinian shot dead after stabbing Israeli police officer
Israeli soldiers fatally shot, on Sunday at night, a Palestinian teen in Ein al-Louza neighborhood, in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
It brought to 99 the number of Palestinians killed in a wave of unrest since October 1.
Israeli officials welcomed Monday’s verdict as a warning against hate crimes, which have surged as repeated bouts of violence eclipse peace talks with the Palestinians deadlocked since early 2014.
Palestinians look at the scene after a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday.
“About 10 petrol bombs were thrown at border police officers in Ras al-Amud”, the statement said. “A hit could not be definitely identified”.
26 of November, “Nas” Radio Station, which broadcasts from Jenin city (north of west Bank), also was handed a decision via fax that threaten to shut it down as well as confiscating its equipment, for allegedly involved in “exercising incitement”.
Later in the morning, a foreign woman of around 30 was wounded in a stabbing near a bus station in west Jerusalem and the attacker fled.
Israeli Arabs are descendants of residents who stayed put during the 1948 war of Israel’s founding, in which hundreds of thousands of fellow Palestinians fled or were forced to leave their homes.
The last round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, brokered by the US, fell apart a year ago as the two sides failed to agree on a key issues. She did not say how close the man got to the Israeli forces. “The force fired at the rioter… and a hit was confirmed”.
The stabbed officer was lightly to moderately injured.
Netanyahu, who is also the foreign minister, told the ministry to carry out “a reassessment of the involvement of European Union bodies in everything that is connected to the diplomatic process with the Palestinians”, the statement said.
European Union diplomats have said the guidelines are unlikely to lead to further measures against Israel’s settlement expansion in the Palestinian territories, which the bloc deems illegal.
Two Palestinians were shot and killed in separate clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank on Thursday as Israel announced plans to strengthen a fence near the flashpoint city of Hebron in an effort to contain a two-month spate of violence.
Hebron, considered a stronghold of Islamist movement Hamas, has been the focus of much of the latest violence.
The two convicted are 18 now but were 16 when they were charged in July 2014, with one from Jerusalem and the other from the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh.