West Bank auto Ramming, Palestinian Attacker Killed
“Israeli law enforcement officials should investigate this incident and take appropriate legal action against those responsible for creating and disseminating this photo”, said Carole Nuriel, acting director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Israel office.
A Palestinian driver ran over and injured an Israeli border policeman near the West Bank city of Hebron today and was then killed by Israeli forces, police said.
The West Bank-based Abbas has ordered his security forces to prevent armed attacks on Israelis, saying such violence goes against Palestinian interests.
The students reportedly pulled back into the campus, where they threw stones at Israeli border police who approached the gates.
“Israeli police targeted [Khateeb] in order to cause a ripple effect among activists”, Amjad Iraqi, Adalah’s media coordinator, told Al Jazeera. They note his long history of supporting nonviolent resistance, reiterated as recently as September in a speech to the United Nations, and the continued cooperation of Palestinian security forces with their Israeli counterparts.
Since October 1st, 72 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and 10 Israelis have died from stabbings.
Palestinians recover belongings from their home in occupied East Jerusalem’s Jabal al-Mukabir neighborhood on 2 November.
But the Palestinian Authority called the plan for cameras “a new trap” and said the Israeli authorities would use the footage to “arrest Palestinians under the pretext of incitement”.
The city of Hebron, in which the mosque is located, is home to roughly 160,000 Palestinian Muslims and about 500 Israeli settlers who live in heavily guarded compounds.
Israeli leftists have long said that the establishment of a Palestinian state is the only way to preserve the country’s Jewish majority.
One soldier speaking in Hebrew says al-Froukh “came suddenly” but there is no description of an attempted attack.
The Palestinians have submitted a file of Israeli violations to the worldwide Criminal Court (ICC), he said.
Arresting Palestinians for social media posts, says Iraqi, constitutes “selective application of the law”. Polls consistently show a majority of Israelis still believing in the need for a two-state solution, but often on terms the Palestinians have been unwilling to accept.
“On the side of the road a young man around 20 years old was lying unconscious with serious multisystem injuries”, a paramedic said, “[and] along with IDF medical soldiers who arrived at the scene we gave him life-saving first aid and took him in serious condition to Hadassah Hospital at Ein Kerem on life support”. Israel has withheld dozens of bodies, a move Palestinians see as collective punishment.
“He’s not risky at all and doesn’t pose a threat to anyone”, Darawsha said.