United Nations experts raise alarm over executions by Israeli troops

Medical sources said 28-year-old Ahmad Abu al-Eish, and 21-year-old Leith Manasra were shot dead by Israeli bullet fire in the Qalandiya refugee camp.

Israeli authorities have begun demolishing the homes of Palestinians suspected of carrying out violent attacks in Israel.

A Palestinian motorist was killed in a suspected ramming attack on Saturday near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank in which three Israelis were injured, police said.

After Friday prayers in the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli soldiers on the border. First reported by Palestinian Media Watch, the campaign shows Fatah’s willingness to blame Israel for anything and everything, according to the site.

It was the latest bloodshed in a two-month wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

On Sunday, Israel’s Shin Bet security service said it detained a Palestinian for killing two Jewish settlers in the West Bank last week after his relatives, “worried their home might be demolished”, turned him in.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked the brutal terror attack in Paris Friday with another in the West Bank, saying Islamic extremism is responsible for both.

The home on the top floor of a three-storey building was destroyed with explosives, residents said, causing damage to the other floors and nearby residences.

An Israeli army statement acknowledged that security personnel went into the refugee camp, located halfway between Ramallah and Jerusalem, to demolish Shaheen’s home.

Israel recently revived the tactic of house demolitions, after a break of a decade, because of questions about its effectiveness as a deterrent and amid human rights concerns.

Reports of Israeli forces using undercover agents have been on the rise in recent weeks.

Nine Palestinians were wounded in the clashes that followed the demolitions.

One-hour firefight Defence minister Moshe Ya’alon defended the actions of the soldiers during the one-hour firefight. He criticized USA and Western leaders for not taking a stand against Israel and the “Zionists”, and implied that the West had a hand in the attacks, because it has “used terror organizations before” to carry out Israel’s and their own “schemes” in the Middle East.