Israel toughens measures against Palestinians, kills a West Bank youth

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Palestinian protesters stand next to a fire during clashes with Israeli police in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of Jerusalem October 5, 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Palestinian protesters stand next to a fire during clashes with Israeli police in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of Jerusalem October 5, 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Israel announced harsher measures to tackle Palestinian violence on Monday as a Palestinian teenager was killed in a clash with Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, a Palestinian hospital source said.

Violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jerusalem has intensified in the past few weeks and the teenager’s reported death was the latest in a series of incidents that has raised fears of wider escalation.

A Bethlehem hospital said a 13-year-old boy identified as Abdel-Rahman Abeidallah of the nearby al-Aidah refugee camp died of a bullet wound to the heart.

The Israeli military said it had no specific information.

Recent bloodshed has included a drive-by shooting that killed an Israeli couple in the West Bank on Thursday and an arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents in July.

Israel said it had arrested five men from the West Bank city of Nablus on suspicion of carrying out Thursday’s drive-by shooting.

Other incidents involving Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli security forces continued without respite on Monday. The Red Crescent ambulance service said some 170 Palestinians were injured.

Late on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet, a close circle of ministers, to authorize the harsher measures to tackle the rising violence in East Jerusalem, which includes the walled Old City, and the West Bank, areas that Israel captured in a 1967 war.

In broadcast remarks before the meeting, Netanyahu said Israel would respond strongly “against terrorism and against inciters”. He said four more army battalions had been deployed in the West Bank and thousands of police had been stationed in Jerusalem.

“The police are going deeply into the Arab neighborhoods, which has not been done in the past. We will demolish terrorists’ homes. We are allowing our forces to take strong action against those who throw rocks and fire bombs,” he said.

But settlers and right-wingers were unimpressed and thousands protested near Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem to decry the government’s “lack of resolve” in fighting Palestinian attacks and ensuring their safety.

In Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman for Islamist Hamas, which runs the coastal enclave said Israel’s harsher measures would not manage “to switch off the protests”.

Tensions have been inflamed in particular by frequent clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli security forces at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Palestinians have said they fear increasing visits by Jewish groups to al-Aqsa, revered by Jews as the site of biblical temples, are eroding Muslim religious control there.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for calm, saying it was “unacceptable on either side to have violence resorted to as a solution. … That kind of violence is not going to serve anybody’s purpose,” he told reporters during a visit to Chile.

Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in April 2014.

REUTERS

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21 responses to “Israel toughens measures against Palestinians, kills a West Bank youth”

  1. Israeli security forces demolished two terrorists houses in Jerusalem

    1. Pity they didn’t demolish you

        1. Right back at ya you disgusting settler settler pig.

          1. pig is you are, vandal idiot

  2. Dmitry Pi Avatar
    Dmitry Pi

    Theatre “Palestinian state” in urgent need of money. Since sponsors began to forget about it.

    1. Intouchable Avatar
      Intouchable

      The “sponsors” never cared about the “Palestinian state”.

      1. And the sponsors told you that personally, right!?

        1. Intouchable Avatar
          Intouchable

          Didn’t need to do it, I’m one of the sponsors…

          1. That proves nothing.
            Btw if you are a sponsor and you don’t care, then why sponsor?
            And just coz you feel that way, it still doesn’t give you the right to speak on behalf of all sponsors.

          2. Intouchable Avatar
            Intouchable

            Read the text of the money box….

          3. Whatever. I hate trying to communicate with people who can communicate in English.

          4. Intouchable Avatar
            Intouchable

            You live in English speaking country, I don’t.

          5. then go comment on a Swedish or wherever your from. It’s painful reading broken English.

          6. Intouchable Avatar
            Intouchable

            My advice to you – do not read my comments, the risk is that you expose yourself to a painful death…

            Man lyssnar inte på en hund som alltid skäller. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f52f004aaae3c7d27e95a6f41fef5547c8cf2b3169cc928e888f63927509f52d.jpg

          7. Lol another keyboard warrior.

          8. communicate? your “communication” is false, barking

  3. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    You gotta recognize that bibi has been handling Israel’s affairs very well.
    Wars and intifadas, isolation of Israel like never before and no vision whatsoever towards any form of solution
    Don’t forget to vote for bibi next elections

    1. Intouchable Avatar
      Intouchable

      The Iraqi Palestinians have been the victims of both targeted and indiscriminate violence in the form of assaults, kidnappings, extortion, murder, and arbitrary arrests.
      The crimes committed by Iraqi security forces, Shiite militias and criminal groups.
      Anette Backlund is head of department at the Swedish Migration Board, and she incharge of the work management process.

      However since they break Swedish laws, Sweden decided to toughens measures against Palestinians in Malmö.

      According to police, the official decision of 22 September which is now enforced by the police.
      Police and the Highways Department of Malmö on Thursday morning in place at the Swedish Migration Board’s plant at Jägersro to remove the tents as stateless Palestinians set up. They meet with opposition and there has been trouble. [Sydsvenskan]

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    Intouchable

    Police tear the Palestinians tent camp at Migrationsverket in Malmö.

    According to police, the official decision of 22 September which is now enforced by the police.
    Police and the gatukontoret of Malmö on Thursday morning in place at the Swedish Migration Board’s plant at Jägersro to remove the tents as stateless Palestinians set up.

    The police where in place with ten picket buses. At 11 o’clock, the police had taken away all the tents.
    Many of the protesters sat in tents.
    The atmosphere is described as bitter.
    They meet with opposition and there has been trouble.
    Some people have been detained by police.

    About 60 of the demonstrators have now sat outside the gates to continue the protest. – They say they are going to sleep here tonight where tents once stood, says Johanna Karlsson.

    They demonstrate for the right to a residence permit in Sweden.
    They come from Syria, Gaza and Iraq – however that’s makes no difference the authority’s increase the hard measures against the illegally staying Palestinians.

    [Sydsvenskan]

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