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4 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in unrest, stabbing
M. DARAGHMEH rusalem, a center of unrest, Wounded Israeli soldier is carried into an ambulance after he was stabbed by a Palestinian
K. LAUB and ordered some Palestin-
Associated Press ian men to lift their shirts to during clashes in Hebron, West Bank Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. The Palestinian man wearing a yellow
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) show they were not armed.
— Stone-throwing protests The violence comes at a “press” vest and a T-shirt identifying him as journalist stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier
erupted across the West time when a possible par-
Bank and Gaza on Friday, tition of the land between in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday before being shot dead by troops, the latest in a
and assailants firebombed the Jordan River and the
a site revered by Jews as Mediterranean into two
the tomb of biblical Joseph states — Palestine along-
on a “day of rage” against side Israel — is fading. This
Israel. Four Palestinians has left many Palestin-
were killed by Israeli fire, in- ians frustrated because all
cluding a laborer disguised paths to independence
as a journalist who stabbed appear blocked. The ten-
an Israeli soldier. sions have also been
The U.N. Security Coun- stoked by Palestinian fears
cil convened an emer- that Israel is trying to ex-
gency meeting to discuss pand its presence at a ma-
the escalation, which has jor Muslim-run shrine in Je-
been marked by a spate rusalem, a claim Israel has
of Palestinian stabbing denied. Taye-Brook Zeri-
attacks and an Israeli se- houn, a senior U.N. official,
curity crackdown. Troops told the Security Council
manned roadblocks in that Israel’s long rule over
Arab neighborhoods of Je- the Palestinians and dimin-
monthlong spate of attacks. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
ishing prospects for achiev- tween stone-throwers and angry and wanted to at-
ing a Palestinian state have Israeli troops. Most of the tack the soldiers,” he said
transformed “long-simmer- attacks on Israelis were of the stone-throwers, most
ing Palestinian anger into carried out by Palestin- of them teens.
outright rage.” The current ians with no known ties to He said tensions rose in re-
crisis cannot be resolved militant groups. Palestinian cent days after Israel an-
by security measures factions, including Abbas’ nounced plans to demolish
alone, Zerihoun warned. Fatah and its rival, the Is- the family homes of several
Israel’s new U.N. ambas- lamic militant Hamas, have suspects in a shooting am-
sador, Danny Danon, ac- mainly been involved in bush earlier this month that
cused Palestinian President organizing stone-throwing killed an Israeli couple who
Mahmoud Abbas of “dan- protests in the West Bank lived in a nearby Jewish
gerous incitement” against and on the Israel-Gaza settlement. “This intifada
Israel with what he called border. On Friday, hun- (uprising) will continue in
“hate-filled speech,” in- dreds joined protests after various forms,” Hanani said.
cluding claims that Israel is Muslim noon prayers, after “People are fed up.”
trying to change the status Palestinian factions called Nearby, in the West Bank
quo at the hilltop Jerusa- for a “day of rage.” Israeli city of Nablus, dozens of
lem compound. The shrine troops opened fire in sev- Palestinians firebombed
is revered by Muslims as eral locations, killing three a site known as Joseph’s
the spot where Prophet Palestinians, including two Tomb that is revered by
Muhammad ascended to in Gaza and a 19-year-old some Jews as the burial
heaven and by Jews as the in the town of Beit Furik in place of the son of the bib-
home of their biblical Tem- the West Bank. Munadil Ha- lical patriarch Jacob. The
ples. Over the past month, nani, a protest organizer in pre-dawn attack black-
eight Israelis have been Beit Furik, said hundreds of ened exterior walls of the
killed in Palestinian attacks, Palestinians walked to an stone structure located
most of them stabbings. Israeli military post on the near the Balata refugee
During the same period, outskirts of the town and camp and a scene of Is-
36 Palestinians were killed threw stones at troops who raeli-Palestinian clashes in
by Israeli fire — 15 labeled responded with live rounds the past.
by Israel as attackers, and and rubber-coated steel
the others in clashes be- pellets. “They were very Continued on Page 27
