US State Dept “clarifies” Kerry’s linking of terror to settlements

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian protesters clashed in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday (October 14).

Israel set up checkpoints Wednesday in Palestinian neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and mobilised hundreds of soldiers as it struggled to stop attacks.

The comments come after a particularly bloody day Tuesday in which a pair of Palestinian stabbing and shooting attacks in Jerusalem killed three Israelis and another two attacks took place in the normally quiet Israeli city of Raanana.

Another of the new mandates is that dead Palestinian attackers should not be returned to their families for burial.

Though the violence may be just another notch in the Israeli-Arab conflict, the latest attacks have a few fearing a third Palestinian “intifada”, or uprising, against Israel. The Israeli military and Palestinian Authority have also increased security cooperation in the West Bank, Pressman said. Palestinian officials say that in several cases, Palestinian attackers were killed after they had already been subdued and when they no longer posed a threat.

AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images Israeli volunteers carry the body of a man who was shot dead by police after he allegedly attempted to carry out a knife attack at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Also the attacks mostly involve young people stabbing or shooting instead of the orchestrated fighting of the past.

It’s an easy comparison to make; the previous intifadas saw clashes between Israelis and Palestinians.

Seven Israelis have been killed and many injured in a wave of Palestinian knife attacks this month, while 18 Palestinians from the West Bank and Jerusalem have been killed.

Situation in occupied territories “very explosive” and Security Council must do more, says Palestinian envoy to the UN.

Israel’s leading Arab politician was in the middle of a television interview on a street in its biggest Arab city when the mayor, also an Arab, pulled up in his auto and started shouting at him to leave.

One Israeli official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity said Palestinian neighbourhoods would not be sealed off completely, describing the measure as “loose encirclement”.

Palestinian leaders insist Israel wants to challenge the status quo at the mosque, despite denials from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Jerusalem Post ran a story on Wednesday saying the Indian President remained silent on terror in his visit to Palestine. The answer is addressing the root cause of the violence, which means re-establishing a political horizon for the end of occupation and the establishment of a Palestinian state, living side by side with Israel in peace and with security, in the near term.

A later statement said that the unidentified attacker was dead.

Mr Mukherjee, who has been criticised by the Israeli media for not mentioning Palestinian “terrorism” during his stay in Palestine prior to coming here, later told Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, that India believed that there is no better option than to resolve issues through negotiations and peaceful dialogue.

The first Palestinian intifada, marked primarily by stone throwing, lasted from 1987 to 1993.