UN’s Ban condemns killings of Palestinians

Those include parties representing Jewish settlements in the West Bank, where an Israeli couple were murdered in front of their children on Thursday.

Israeli soldiers patrol a street during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, Sunday, October 4, 2015.

In an initial move, the Israeli military demolished the homes of two Palestinian militants in east Jerusalem.

Abbas s intentions had been unclear before his latest comments, particularly following his UN General Assembly speech last week when he declared he was no longer bound by accords with Israel.

Ghassan Abu Jamal was shot dead along with his cousin, Uday, after they killed four Israelis in a high-profile attack on a synagogue in November previous year.

The 18-year-old Palestinian woman attacked the 35-year-old Israeli man with a knife near the Western Wall, close to the site of Saturday’s fatal stabbings which claimed the lives of two Jewish men.

The worldwide community must try to stop the Palestinians from digging ever more holes, and inform them that Israel, the “Zionists”, are not declaring war on the Al-Aqsa Mosque nor on Islamic identity.

On Friday, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli to death, seriously wounding his wife and two-year-old in Jerusalem’s Old City, near the site of Wednesday’s attack. The man then fled into a residential building, where police forces tracked him down and shot him dead. “All our instructions to our [security] agencies, our factions and our youth have been that we do not want escalation.”

Among victims was 13-year-old boy Abd al-Rahman Obaid Allah, who was killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, a spokesperson of the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is in a “fight to death” against Palestinian terror and called for tough new measures, including expedited demolition of the homes of Palestinian militants, increasing the number of security forces in Jerusalem and West bank, as well as broader use of detention without trial.

The attack kicked off a bloody holiday weekend in which four Israelis and four Palestinians were killed amid violent protests.

“Five Palestinians were injured by live ammunition and eight by rubber bullets on Monday, while 26 suffered excessive teargas inhalation”, the Red Crescent said.

The hilltop compound has been at the heart of the recent tensions.

He is trying to prevent an escalation that he believes will cost the Palestinians worldwide sympathy, but can’t be seen as cracking down on what Palestinians view as legitimate resistance to occupation. It is revered by Muslims as the place where the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven and by Jews as the site of the two Jewish biblical Temples. Israel has adamantly denied the allegations, describing them as slander aimed at inciting Arabs to violence.

Confrontations spread late on Tuesday to Jaffa, a predominantly Arab neighborhood of Israel’s commercial capital Tel Aviv, where three police officers were injured in stone-throwing incidents and six protesters arrested, police said.

Security officials from the two sides had met on Tuesday evening after the Palestinian leader said he did not want a violent escalation.