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WORLD NEWSMonday 23 November 2015

Assad: Palestinian stabs
Israeli woman dead,
Syrian troops advancing thanks to Russian airstrikes
3 attackers killed
Russian air force personnel load bombs onto a Tu-22 bomber in preparation for a bombing ian insurgents battling to
overthrow Assad, includ- IAN DEITCH
mission against targets in Syria. (AP Photo/ Russian Defense Ministry PS) ing some Western-backed Associated Press
groups. JERUSALEM (AP) — A
ALBERT AJI erywhere in Syria.” carried by Syrian state me- Asked if he is going to run young Israeli woman was
Russia, which has con- dia. for president again if early stabbed to death by a Pal-
BASSEM MROUE ducted an air campaign in Assad said the Russian air- elections are held, Assad estinian who was among
Syria since Sept. 30, sharply strikes are more effective said: “It is my right but it is three assailants to be shot
Associated Press raised its intensity in recent than those of the U.S.-led early to say whether I will dead following separate
days on President Vladimir coalition because Mos- run or not.” He added that attacks Sunday, Israeli se-
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Putin’s orders after Mos- cow is coordinating with “I will not say that I will not curity forces said, with the
cow said it had confirmed his government, saying run if I see that this is need- latest flare-up of violence
Syrian President Bashar that a bomb brought “you cannot fight terrorism ed.” coming ahead of a visit to
down a Russian plane over with airstrikes alone.” A peace plan agreed to the region by U.S. Secre-
Assad says his forces are Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Syrian troops have cap- last weekend by 17 nations tary of State John Kerry.
killing all 224 people on tured dozens of villages in meeting in Vienna says The 21-year-old Israe-
advancing on “almost” board. northern and western Syria nothing about Assad’s fu- li woman was seriously
The Islamic State group since the Russian airstrikes ture, but states that “free wounded when a Pales-
all fronts thanks to Russian claimed responsibility for began. Their biggest vic- and fair elections would tinian attacked her with
the attack. tory so far has been lift- be held pursuant to the a knife in the West Bank
airstrikes that began nearly “Following the participa- ing a three-year siege im- new constitution within 18 Sunday afternoon before
tion of Russian air force in posed on the military air months.” being shot and killed by
two months ago and have fighting terrorism, the situ- base of Kweiras by extrem- To clarify the timeline, the soldiers nearby, the military
ation improved well. I can ist groups in the northern U.S. State Department said said.
tipped the balance in his say that the army now is province of Aleppo. last week that the clock Dr. Ofer Merin of the Shaare
advancing almost on ev- The Russian strikes have not starts once Assad’s rep- Zedek Medical Center in
favor in some parts of the ery front,” Assad said in the only targeted the Islamic resentatives and opposi- Jerusalem said “the young
interview, which was also State group, but also Syr- tion figures begin talks on woman was stabbed nu-
country. a constitution. The vote merous times in the head,
would determine a new chest and the area of the
In remarks published parliament, though not heart.” He said despite at-
necessarily a new presi- tempts by medics to save
Sunday, Assad told Chi- dent. her, she succumbed to her
More than 250,000 people wounds.
na’s Phoenix Television have been killed since the The attack occurred at the
start of Syria’s 2011 upris- Gush Etzion junction near
that the Russians depend ing, which began as a Jerusalem, the scene of
series of mostly peaceful multiple Palestinian attacks
on Syrian ground forces protests but escalated into against civilians and securi-
an armed revolt against ty forces over the past two
and “cooperate with us.” Assad after a harsh gov- months.
ernment crackdown. Syr- In an earlier attack, the
He added that Syrian ian rebels have demand- military said a woman
ed that Assad step down pulled out a knife at the
troops had achieved vic- as part of any agreement entrance to a military base
to end the fighting.q and began approaching
tories in some areas be- civilians.q

fore the strikes began but

“could not be present ev-

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