Palestinian shot dead in attempted stabbing

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The death of the latest attacker took the number of Palestinians killed in the recent unrest to 63, including many shot in anti-Israeli protests.

In Bil’in and Ni’lin, protesters managed to reach the Israeli wall.

Both incidents were followed by clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces.

For IMEMC News this Majd Batjali.

Rights groups have accused Israeli troops of using excessive force in a few of the cases, a charge Israel’s military has denied.

The charge that Jews are trying to encroach on the al-Aqsa mosque predates the founding of Israel.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that he neither intends to abandon the Oslo Accords nor insist on the absorption of millions of Palestinians into Israel, according to JTA.

“There’s been a worrying deterioration on the ground and we’re stuck with nothing happening in the peace process and no commitment in the council to do anything”, van Bohemen said. Al-Khatib insisted that Israel has no jurisdiction over the Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding plaza.

Israel, which has not signed up to the ICC, has vehemently opposed the Palestinian attempt to trigger a full investigation for war crimes.

The newspaper also reported Bensouda as stressing “the need for calm and restraint from all sides, and an end to the violence”.

The talks at the world’s only permanent war crimes court come amid an increase of Israeli-Palestinian violence and marked Abbas’s first meeting with Bensouda since the Palestinian Authority sparked controversy by joining the tribunal in January.

Meanwhile in Jerusalem, a Palestinian man wounded a United States citizen in the east of the city after he stabbed him. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 71 Palestinians have been killed since the start of October.

Hundreds of Palestinians also attended the funeral of another victim of the West Bank violence, eight-month-old Ramadan Thawabteh. “The soldiers and settlers are killing people without a reason… just because they’re Palestinian”. Witnesses said that the two were killed in cold blood.

He added that “the Israeli occupation is the root cause of the instability in the region”.

The teargas was sacked as Israeli soldiers faced off against stone-throwing Palestinian youths in one of a series of clashes that swept the West Bank on Friday.

Shortly before he was shot, Fadel al-Qawasmeh had passed through Checkpoint 56 on al-Shuhada Street, which separates the section of Hebron ostensibly under Palestinian control from the Old City where illegal Israeli settlements are located. Confrontations between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces erupted after the funerals.

The city, home to the final resting place of Prophet Abraham (PBUH) – revered in both religions – is another powder-keg, and many attacks have taken place around the holy site known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs. An Israeli man was wounded in the cross-fire.

Israeli forces on Friday imposed new restrictions on Palestinians in the Israeli-controlled center of Hebron, the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, residents said. He was shot and killed by security forces.

Israeli settlements in the West Bank have been a subject of fierce debate between Tel Aviv and Palestine.

Three Palestinians were also injured in the clashes, the Ma’an news agency reported.