Two Israeli soldiers wounded in West Bank shootings

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Tuesday morning shot dead a Palestinian youth who reportedly stabbed an Israeli soldier on a checkpoint north of Hebron, southern West Bank.

One attacker, a Palestinian named Bahaa Elayan, had opened fire on passengers on a bus in October, killing three people.

Both were shot and killed at the scene.

Israel on Sunday indicted two Jewish extremists suspected in the attack, a case that has been unsolved for months and helped fuel the current wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

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”.

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Yinon Reuveni, 20, and another minor were charged for other violence against Palestinians, including setting fires to two of the Holy Land’s most famous churches – the Dormition Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located just outside Jerusalem’s Old City, and the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. A second, underaged defendant, whose name was not released for publication, was charged as Ben-Oliel’s accessory in the Duma arson, which killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents, Saad and Riham.

In a wave of Palestinian attacks since October 1 – including stabbings, auto rammings and gunfire targeting security forces and civilians – 22 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean have been killed.

A female Israeli soldier was among two injured in separate shootings on Sunday in the West Bank city of Hebron, according to the Israeli army.

The police at Herzyla were in a state of alert after the vehicle that drove through the roadblock near Jerusalem was found abandoned after the driver, suspected of planning an attack, fled on foot. It remains under Israel’s military control until present days, while the International Court of Justice has said in its 2004 ruling those territories can be called “occupied” under customary international law, and Israel has therefore a status of occupying power. That figure does not include the two Israelis killed Friday by an Arab man in a shooting attack on a Tel Aviv restaurant, as the motive for the attack hasn’t officially been determined. “They would not have launched an investigation were it not for the global pressure on them”, he said.

Palestinian leaders say a younger generation sees no hope for the future living under Israeli security restrictions and with a stifled economy.

Palestinians accuse Israel of waging an aggressive campaign to “Judaize” the city of Jerusalem with the aim of effacing its Arab and Islamic identity and ultimately driving out its Palestinian inhabitants.