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WORLD NEWS 9
Tuesday 6 October 2015
Israeli PM vows ‘strong action’ against Palestinian unrest
IAN DEITCH An Israeli border policeman checks papers at the entrance to the Old City in Jerusalem on Sun- paralysis, many have lost
M. DARAGHMEH day, Oct. 4, 2015. Israeli police barred Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City in response to stab- hope in the chance of set-
Associated Press bing attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded three others, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ting up a state in the West
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Netanyahu vowed a “harsh offensive” to counter rising violence. Bank, Gaza Strip and east
Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- Jerusalem, lands Israel
tanyahu warned Monday (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) captured in 1967.
that he will use a “strong Palestinian leader Mah-
hand” to quell violent later, a Palestinian stabbed estinian assailants over the steel pellets in the West moud Abbas has not of-
Palestinian protests and an Israeli man to death weekend and on Mon- Bank and Jerusalem on fered an alternative to
deadly attacks, signaling and seriously wounded his day shot dead two teen- Monday, the Red Crescent failed negotiations, except
that the current round of wife as they walked in Je- age stone-throwers, one of said. to urge the international
violence is bound to esca- rusalem’s Old City, then at- them a 13-year-old boy, in The spike in attacks and community to intervene, so
late at a time when a politi- tacked and killed another West Bank clashes. clashes comes at a time of far to little avail. President
cal solution to the conflict Israeli man. In all, eight Palestinians mounting Palestinian frus- Barack Obama made no
is increasingly distant. Israeli forces, meanwhile, were wounded by live fire tration. mention of the Israeli-Pales-
Netanyahu said he has killed two suspected Pal- and 45 by rubber-coated After years of diplomatic tinian conflict in his speech
sent thousands more sol- to the U.N. General Assem-
diers and police to the West bly last week, an omission
Bank and Arab neighbor- noted by the Palestinians.
hoods of Jerusalem and Netanyahu has repeatedly
that “we are allowing our accused Abbas of inciting
forces to take strong action the violence and of hav-
against those who throw ing no interest in negotiat-
rocks and firebombs.” He ing a peace deal. Abbas
said restrictions limiting has countered that Netan-
what security forces can yahu is acting in bad faith
do were being lifted, but by promoting continued
did not elaborate. Netan- settlement expansion on
yahu’s warnings came af- territory Palestinians claim
ter a rash of violence that for their future state.
began Thursday when Pal- Tensions have also risen
estinian gunmen killed an over a major Jerusalem
Israeli couple in their car shrine that is sacred to Mus-
near a settlement in the lims and Jews and is key to
West Bank as their four chil- the rival national narratives
dren watched. Two days of the two sides. q
Syrian insurgent groups vow to attack Russian forces
BASSEM MROUE war in Syria after President Assad’s powerbase in the alliance that occupies Syr- be Russian have targeted
SARAH EL DEEB Bashar Assad’s forces were capital, Damascus, and on ia,” the 41 factions said in a the northern town of Al-Bab
Associated Press on the verge “of a crushing the Mediterranean coast. statement released by Ah- that is a stronghold of the Is-
BEIRUT (AP) — More than defeat.” The Russian intervention rar al-Sham. lamic State group.
40 Syrian insurgent groups Russia launched its air cam- was widely criticized by Syr- It was apparently referring It said the airstrike left
vowed to attack Russian paign on Wednesday and ian opposition groups and to backers of the opposi- “a large number” of
forces in retaliation for Mos- claims it’s targeting the Is- activists especially since tion such as Turkey and casualties.A Facebook
cow’s air campaign in a lamic State group and al- Moscow once played the Saudi Arabia. page used by IS posted
show of unity among the Qaida’s Syrian affiliate, the role of a mediator hosting A Syrian military official was photos of wounded peo-
usually fragmented rebels Nusra Front. But many of the rounds of talks between quoted by state media as ple being treated in a clinic
against what they called strikes appear to have hit the Syrian government and saying that Russian airstrikes and another of what ap-
the “occupiers” of Syria. Western-backed rebel fac- its opponents. on Monday hit in the cen- peared to be a burned
The 41 groups, which in- tions. The Russian attacks “This new reality requires the tral province of Homs and body being pulled out of a
cluded powerful factions have largely focused on region’s countries and the Idlib in the northwest. charred car. The Facebook
such as Ahrar al-Sham, Is- the northwestern and cen- allies in specific to hasten in The Britain-based Syrian Ob- page said dozens of peo-
lam Army and the Levant tral provinces — the gate- forming a regional alliance servatory for Human rights ple were killed or wounded
Front, said Russia joined the ways to the heartland of to face the Russian-Iranian said warplanes believed to in the airstrikes.q
