The Israeli Defense Forces say an Israeli soldier has died at a military checkpoint near the Shuafat Refugee Camp. Israel and the Middle East
The Israel Defense forces said that an Israeli soldier has died following a shooting at a military checkpoint.
According to the Border Police, a shot was fired from a passing vehicle and a suspect fired at the security forces at the Shuafat crossing. Border Guard forces are searching for the suspects.”
A male in serious condition was taken to a hospital and another female, who was also in serious condition, was treated at the scene.
The shooting happened at a checkpoint of the normally quiet area near the Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, an area considered occupied by most of the international community.
Many forces are deployed in the field and work day and night to protect the citizens of Israel, as stated by Prime Minister Yair Lapid in a statement. Our hearts tonight are with the victims and their families. We are strong, even on this difficult evening, and we won’t be defeated by terror.
The youngest was 14-year-old Adel Ibrahim Daoud, shot on Friday near the separation wall between Israel and the West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said, according to Palestinian Authority news agency WAFA.
The Israel Defense Force said that soldiers spotted a suspect who was throwing Molotov cocktails at them during routine operations and that they were 888-609- 888-609- 888-609- 888-609-. The soldiers responded with live fire. A hit was identified. The incident is being reviewed.
In October, Israeli troops killed 10 people in a raid on the northern West Bank. The following day, a lone Palestinian gunman opened fire near a synagogue in an east Jerusalem settlement, killing seven people.
Last year, as the Israeli military intensified its arrest raids following a string of deadly Palestinian attacks within Israel, at least 150 Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem. It was the highest annual death toll for more than a decade and a half. Israeli figures show that over 30 people were killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis last year.
TheJenin refugee camp was being used to arrest an “Islamic Jihad operative” who is involved in terrorist activities, planning and carrying out shooting attacks towards IDF soldiers in the area.
In a statement, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said he is “alarmed by the deteriorating security situation, including the rise in armed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”
Israel has been regularly raiding cities and villages in the occupied West Bank, saying it is targeting militants and their weapon caches before they have the chance to cross into Israel and carry out attacks. The IDF launched the operation after a series of attacks on Israelis. There have been at least 20 killings of Israelis and foreigners in Israel and the West Bank so far this year.
“The mounting violence in the occupied West Bank is fueling a climate of fear, hatred and anger. It is crucial to reduce tensions in order to open up the space for important initiatives aimed at establishing a political horizon.
The twin blasts of a Palestinian bus stop in Jerusalem: Aryeh Shechopek, an Israeli student at a Jewish seminary
A bomb went off near a bus stop on the edge of the city. The second blast went off about half an hour later in Ramot. Police say one person died from their wounds and three others were seriously wounded in the blasts.
The victim was identified as Aryeh Shechopek, a teenager who was heading to a Jewish seminary when the blast went off, according to a notice announcing his death. The Ambassador to Israel stated that Shechopek was a Canadian citizen. There were conflicting reports over Shechopek’s exact age.
The violence occurred hours after Palestinian militants stormed a West Bank hospital and carried out an Israeli citizen seeking treatment there after a car accident, according to the young man’s father. That incident could further ratchet up tensions.
The developments took place as Benjamin Netanyahu is holding coalition talks after national elections and is likely to return to power as the leader of a right-wing government.
Angry young Israelis welcomed Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir with “death to terrorists” when he visited the scene of the attack. He said that he would push for legislation to institute the death penalty for attackers, as well as setting up checkpoint to inspect all Palestinians entering and leaving their neighborhoods.
“We must exact a price from terror,” he said at the scene of the first explosion. “We must return to be in control of Israel, to restore deterrence against terror.”
Police, who were searching for the suspected attackers, said their initial findings showed that shrapnel-laden explosive devices were placed at the two sites. The twin blasts occurred amid the buzz of rush hour traffic and police briefly closed part of a main highway leading out of the city, where the first explosion went off. Video from shortly after the initial blast showed debris strewn along the sidewalk as the wail of ambulances blared. A bus in Ramot was pocked with what looked like shrapnel marks.
The medic who was at the scene when the first blast occurred said it was a crazy explosion. People with wounds were bleeding all over the place.
While Palestinians have carried out stabbings, car rammings and shootings in recent years, bombing attacks have become very rare since the end of a Palestinian uprising nearly two decades ago.
The Islamic militant Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and once carried out suicide bombings against Israelis, praised the perpetrators of the attacks, calling it a heroic operation, but stopped short of claiming responsibility.
Israel said it was closing two crossings to Palestinians in the West Bank because of the blasts, which happened near the militant stronghold of Jenin.
A Palestinian teen’s body was taken into custody in the Israeli border city of Nablus, the 1967 Mideast War, and its implications to the US Secretary of State
It was terrible. It was something that was inhumane,” Husam Ferro, the teen’s father, told Israeli news site YNet. “He was still alive and they took him in front of my eyes and I couldn’t do anything.”
A Druze community leader told YNet talks were underway on the body’s return to the family. Palestinian militant groups have kidnapped to seek Israeli concessions in the past. Lapid said the militants would “pay a heavy price” if the body was not returned.
The Israeli military said Wednesday that Palestinian gunmen opened fire on forces escorting worshippers to a flashpoint shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus overnight. The troops fired back and the Palestinian Health Ministry said a 16-year-old was killed in the incident.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war, territories the Palestinians seek for their hoped-for independent state.
The announcement said that in response to public Palestinian celebrations over the attack, Israel would take new steps to “strengthen the settlements” this week. It gave no further details.
The announcement cast a cloud over a visit by the US Secretary of State next week, threatening to further raise tensions after one of the bloodiest months in the West Bank and east Jerusalem in years.
Two Palestinians are killed in Israeli arrest raids on a Palestinian synagogue in the wake of the Friday night attack in the West Bank
Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet, which is filled by hard-line politicians aligned with the West Bank settlement movement, approved the measures in the wake of a pair of shootings that included an attack outside an east Jerusalem synagogue on Friday night in which seven people were killed.
There was no immediate response from Washington. The policy of the Biden administration was to oppose settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, lands that the Palestinians want for a future state. It’s likely that the topic will be high on the agenda when Blinken arrives Monday to talk with Israelis and Palestinians.
In addition, Netanyahu could come under pressure from members of his government, a collection of religious and ultranationalist politicians, to take even tougher action. The Hamas militant group might be dragged in Gaza if these steps are taken.
Amos Harel, a defense affairs commentator, said that it would take reinforcement and proper deployment of forces and careful management of the crisis to put this genie back into the bottle.
Days later, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli arrest raid elsewhere in the West Bank. That was followed by a Palestinian car ramming that killed three Israelis, including two young brothers, in Jerusalem.
Authorities published the names of four of the victims. They included a 14-year-old Asher Natan, Eli Mizrahi, his wife Natali, and a 56-year-old man. Funerals for some victims were scheduled Saturday night.
The charged atmosphere of the evening was reflected in the crowd shouting “leftists go home” after mourners lit memorial candles near the synagogue.
The aunt of Natali Mizrahi said that when they heard gunshots outside on Friday night, their niece was celebrating the Jewish Sabbath with her husband and father.
“Natali and her husband went out of the house to treat the wounded, and they shot both of them, because she wanted to help,” Sakovich stated in the statement.
In response to the shooting, Israeli police beefed up activities throughout east Jerusalem and said they had arrested 42 people, including family members, who were connected to the shooter.
As police rushed to the scene, two passers-by with licensed weapons shot and overpowered the 13-year-old attacker, police said. Police confiscated his handgun and took the wounded teen to a hospital.
Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu, and the Israeli Defense Forces in the wake of the Friday night Blinken-Israel attack in the West Bank
There is a chance that Blinken will arrive in Israel on Monday. The Biden administration condemned Friday night’s shooting and has called for calm on all sides, but given few details on how it expects to promote these goals.
Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem hold permanent residency status, allowing them to work and move freely throughout Israel, but they suffer from subpar public services and are not allowed to vote in national elections.
Israel’s national security minister,Itamar Ben-Gvir, was the focus of the media’s attention for his promise to take even stronger action against the Palestinians.
Speaking to reporters at a hospital where victims were being treated, Ben-Gvir said he wanted the home of the gunman in Friday’s attack to be sealed off immediately as a punitive measure and lashed out at Israel’s attorney general for delaying his order.
Changes in Israel’s justice system, which includes the attorney general’s office, have been at the top of the agenda of the new government.
The issue helped fuel weekly protests in Israel by people who said the proposed changes would undermine democracy and weaken the Supreme Court.
Thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv Saturday evening for a new protest. Some raised banners describing Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir as “a threat to world peace.”
The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank upheld their decision to halt coordination with Israel to protest the raid in Jenin.
The Palestinian Authority called on international community and the U.S. administration to force Israel to halt its raids in the West Bank after a meeting chaired by President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Associated Press says at least 55 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the course of the year. That puts 2023 on a path to surpass the 150 people killed in 2022.
Police say an off-duty policeman shot and killed the driver. The Israeli media said he is from the Palestinian neighborhood of Issawiyeh in East Jerusalem.
The Israeli authorities said the suspects were planning attacks in the immediate future. The three were neutralised, Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency said in a statement.
The names of at least two suspects released by the IDF – Hussam Esleem and Waleed Dakheel – appeared to match names of the dead released by the Palestinian health ministry. Two people were shot while fleeing and one of them was killed in a military exchange of fire.
The IDF raids into the West Bank usually occur at night, and last time they conducted a daylight operation they said it was because of an immediate threat.
Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, the Al Qassam brigade, warned they were watching the enemy’s crimes against people in the West Bank and were running out of patience.
The battle in which a building was reduced to rubble, and several shops were shot at, was the bloodiest in a year of fighting in the West Bank. The dead and wounded included a 72-year-old man, according to Palestinian officials.
The Israeli military claimed to have entered the city to arrest people suspected of previous shooting attacks in the West Bank. It said it tracked down the men in a hideout.
Israeli Defense Mission Surveills the “Old City” of Nablus: Witnesses of the Ramadan-Circle
In the Old City of Nablus, people stared at the rubble that had been a large home in the centuries-old casbah. From one end to the other, shops were riddled with bullets. Cars parked were crushed. Blood stained the cement ruins. Furniture from the destroyed home was scattered among mounds of debris.
Israel says that most of those killed have been militants but others — including youths protesting the incursions and other people not involved in confrontations — have also been killed. An AP tally has found that just under half of those killed belonged to militant groups.
An amateur video posted online appeared to show security camera footage of two young men running down a street. Gunshots are heard, and both falls to the ground, with one’s hat flying off his head. Both bodies remained still.
The group has faced Israel four times over the course of the past three years, and Israeli officials are concerned about a possible rise in tensions for the Muslim month of Ramadan, which starts in March.
The Israeli military said via Twitter that Wednesday’s operation targeted the Palestinian militant group called the Lion’s Den, which it says recently carried out shooting attacks against Israelis in the West Bank and was planning more violence.
The Palestinian officials acknowledged that there were casualties. They say that others, including a 16-year-old boy and a 72 year old man, are dead.
Ned Price said the U.S. State Department is concerned by the large number of injured and the loss of civilian lives in Israel’s raid on Nablus.
The Firefighter’s Reaction: Footprints of a ‘Dark Side’ of Firefighting on a Military Vehicle
News service images from the scene show that people threw fruit and rocks at military vehicles as fires raged on the street.