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WORLD NEWSFriday 27 November 2015
3 Palestinians die in clashes; Israel toughens fence
Israeli soldiers and police officers stand guard next to a crashed car, in the West Bank, near Police spokeswoman Luba been a flashpoint in the
the Palestinian town of Nablus. A Palestinian motorist rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli Samri said the man got current unrest. Yaalon said
soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint on Tuesday, wounding three, Israel’s military said. out of a taxi near a military attackers have managed
post and began running to get through the struc-
(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) toward officers, brandish- ture in recent weeks.
ing a knife. No Israelis were “We intend to bring a
DANIELLA CHESLOW bron in an effort to contain estinians hurled firebombs hurt in that attack, Samri far more massive barrier
Associated Press a two-month spate of vio- and stones at troops, ac- added. She did not say there...in light of the bitter
JERUSALEM (AP) — Three lence. cording to the army. how close the man got to experience with the physi-
Palestinians were shot and In the first incident, the Is- Yehya Taha, 21, was shot the Israeli forces. cal damage to this bar-
killed in separate clashes raeli military said a clash in the head and later died, The Palestinian Health Min- rier,” Yaalon said. “I defi-
with Israeli security forces in erupted after troops raid- according to Palestinian istry identified the assailant nitely identify this area as
the West Bank on Thursday ed the village of Qattana Health Ministry spokesman as 51-year-old Samir Seresi. a weak point, from both a
as Israel announced plans overnight to search for Mohammed Awawdeh. Late Thursday, it said a security and criminal per-
to strengthen a fence near ammunition and arrest sus- Later in the day, Israeli bor- 21-year-old Palestinian spective.”
the flashpoint city of He- pected assailants. The Pal- der guards shot and killed was killed in clashes with The approximately 25-mile
a Palestinian attacker soldiers near Hebron in (40-kilometer) stretch of
wielding a knife near the the West Bank. The Israeli fence is part of a sprawl-
West Bank city of Nablus. military said the Palestin- ing West Bank separation
ian was about to throw a barrier that Israel has built
firebomb at passing traffic over the last decade or so.
when soldiers opened fire. Israel says the structure is
The deaths were the latest a security measure meant
in a two-month wave of vi- to keep attackers out of
olence. Since mid-Septem- its cities. But the Palestin-
ber, 19 Israelis have died in ians say the structure is a
Palestinian attacks, mostly land grab, since it places
stabbings and shootings. sections of the West Bank
At least 94 Palestinians on the “Israeli” side. The
have also died, including Palestinians claim all of the
58 said by Israel to be at- West Bank for part of a fu-
tackers. The others died in ture state. Yaalon told law-
clashes with Israeli forces. makers that the project will
In an effort to quell the take a year. The fence will
violence, Defense Minister have similar technology as
Moshe Yaalon announced the recently constructed
Wednesday that Israel will Israeli fence on the Egyp-
fortify an existing fence tian frontier meant to pre-
west of Hebron, a south- vent infiltration by militants
ern West Bank city that has and African migrants.q
Migrants clash at Greece-Macedonia border
G. PAPANIKOS sewn their mouths shut in their tents on a railway
C. KANTOURIS protest. One of the hunger line, halting rail services
Associated Press strikers fainted during the between the Greek port of
IDOMENI, Greece (AP) protest and was carried by Thessaloniki and the Mace-
— Hundreds of migrants to a medical tent set up by donian capital Skopje.
stranded at Greece’s a charity organization. With many of its islands
northern border clashed An Iranian migrant who facing the coast of Turkey,
with police Thursday while asked to be identified only Greece was the busiest en-
trying to force their way by her first name, Sonya, try point for migrants and
into Macedonia. said she was afraid to re- refugees trying to reach
The migrants from Iran, Mo- turn to Iran after speak- northern Europe following
rocco, Pakistan and sever- ing out against authorities a spike in new arrivals this
al other countries confront- there. year.
ed Macedonian riot police “They are not letting us into Struggling to cope with the
who were seen hitting pro- Macedonia. I have tried high numbers of new arriv-
testers with batons. to cross at several points, als, many Balkan countries
Macedonia toughened but the police were always relaxed transit rules over
rules for crossings earlier there to stop us,” she said. the summer as migrants
this month, in the wake of “I’ve been here for sev- headed to Germany and
the deadly Paris attacks, en days and I’m going to other countries northern
restricting access to citi- keep trying to get across.” Europe.
zens from countries typi- About 750 stranded mi- Greek police said 2,400
cally granted asylum in Eu- grants remained camped migrants had crossed into
rope, including Syria and out near the border village Macedonia in the 24 hours
Afghanistan. of Idomeni, police said. before 6 a.m. (0400GMT)
At least 10 people strand- They have staged daily Thursday, down from the
ed at the border are on demonstrations at the bor- recent daily average of
hunger strike and have der, and have pitched 3,500.q
