Two Palestinians killed in West Bank clashes with Israeli troops
Israeli army units Saturday demolished four West bank homes of families of Palestinians accused of killing Israelis, two days after the action was cleared by the nation’s Supreme Court.
The Shin Bet internal security service said on Sunday, the suspect admitted to being involved in Friday’s attack, in which a Rabbi and his son were killed as they were driving with their family south of the city of Hebron, Associated Press reports.
The military says that over the past month, Palestinians have carried out dozens of attacks in Hebron alone, including more than 20 stabbings, multiple assaults with cars and other vehicles and several shooting attacks. The very latest event happened when the Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Uri Ariel, who is from the right-wing Jewish Home Party, entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque accompanied by a large number of settlers, causing clashes between the Palestinians and the Jews.
Further raising tensions, security camera footage emerged Thursday showing Israeli special forces disguised as Palestinian civilians raiding a hospital to arrest a Palestinian the military said had seriously wounded an Israeli in a knife attack.
Israel has accused Palestinian political and religious leaders of inciting the violence that is glorified in detail on Palestinian social media sites.
– Changes on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank that deliver straightforward economic benefits for ordinary Palestinians, including jobs, growth, electricity supply, clean water, housing, better telecoms and other infrastructure.
Europe’s way of supporting the Palestinians and showing them their solidarity is by boycotting goods produced by Israeli companies that operate on Jewish settlements shows how one sided the world can be when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was unclear if a third Palestinian was killed.
Israeli forces opened fire, injuring five demonstrators with live fire, said Ramzi abu Yousif, the head of a health committee at the Halhul Medical Center.
A statement from the ministry announced “the death of a young man, Lafi Yusuf Awad, 22 years old, from the village of Budrus in the district of Ramallah, (killed) by a bullet from Israeli forces”.
Additionally, hundreds of Palestinians rioters hurled fire bombs, IEDs and rocks at the troops, who deployed riot dispersal means in order to disperse the mob.
It said his father and brother turned him in, fearing that their home would be razed as part of the policy of punitive demolitions of the homes of Palestinian perpetrators of deadly attacks on Israelis.