Two Palestinians killed after attacking Israeli forces

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians Wednesday who had attacked Israeli security forces during an overnight raid in the West Bank, police said.

PPS said Israeli troops have resorted to “direct shooting and killing” instead of detaining Palestinians who are suspected of carrying out attacks on Israeli targets.

Samri says the forces were conducting arrests and confiscating weapons in the Qalandiya refugee camp, near Ramallah.

Soldiers shot and killed the driver of a vehicle who tried to run them over in one attack during the raid in the Qalandia refugee camp, the army said.

Issuance of construction permits for Palestinians living in Area C of the West Bank, under full Israeli administrative and military control, is strictly limited, forcing those living in this area to embark on construction without obtaining a permit.

Israeli forces on Tuesday detained an 8-year-old Palestinian in occupied East Jerusalem, witnesses said. Another five Palestinians, including two Hamas members, were arrested in al-Khalil (Hebron), situated 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of al-Quds.

The statement inflated the percentages, however, saying that “some 75 percent of the Palestinians reject the two-state solution and about 80 percent support continuing stabbing attacks”.

Residents of the camp told local media outlets that hundreds of Israeli soldiers stormed the camp from all sides at around 1am local time (2300 GMT) and left later at 4.30am (0230 GMT), after ransacking homes and stores and clashing with the Palestinian youth.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas referred to the last three months of violence Monday as a “justified popular uprising”.

The poll also found more confidence in violence than peaceful measures as a means to achieve Palestinian statehood: 66 percent believe an armed intifada would serve Palestinian national interests in ways that negotiations could not, while only 50 percent think wide-scale peaceful confrontations would be more effective than negotiations.