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WORLD NEWSSaturday 3 October 2015
Israel sends troops after settler couple killed in West Bank
ARON HELLER perpetrators and, like other Israeli right wing protesters hold flags and chant slogans during a demonstration, a day after a
Associated Press Israeli politicians, blaming
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Palestinian President Mah- drive-by shooting by suspected Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler couple driving home
military deployed hun- moud Abbas for inciting
dreds of troops in the West such violence. with their children, in Jerusalem, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Bank on Friday, a day af- Thousands attended the
ter a drive-by shooting by parents’ funeral on Friday have condemned as in- of his people. Bank and east Jerusalem,
suspected Palestinian gun- in Jerusalem, including Is- citement. Abbas has said Speaking before the U.N. on lands the Palestinians
men killed a Jewish settler raeli President Reuven Riv- that Israelis desecrate a Je- General Assembly, Abbas seek for a future state, and
couple driving home with lin. rusalem holy site with their said Israel had repeatedly accused Israel of waging
their children. “We cannot stand silently “dirty feet” and charged violated its commitments, “a new war of genocide
The attack took place late when the hands of murder- that Israel was committed most notably by expand- ... against the Palestinian
Thursday when gunmen ers steal a loving mother to the “ethnic cleansing” ing settlements in the West people.”q
opened fire at a vehicle and father away from their
travelling near the Palestin- children,” Rivilin said in a
ian village of Beit Furik. The eulogy. “We are facing a
shots killed Eitam and Naa- brutal terrorist onslaught.”
ma Henkin, residents of the The attack comes on the
Jewish West Bank settle- heels of a series of Palestin-
ment of Neria. Their four ian rock and firebomb at-
young children, including a tacks that have prompted
four-month old infant, were Israel to vow to quash such
in the back seat of the car, threats.
but were unharmed. It also followed a hard-line
On Friday, Defense Minister speech at the United Na-
Moshe Yaalon visited the tions by Abbas, the last of
site, pledging to catch the several that Israeli leaders
Tunisia lifts 3 month state of emergency
BEN BOUAZZA ber. people, again mostly tour-
Associated Press The state of emergency ists, at The National Bardo
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tuni- “ends today through- Museum outside Tunis.
sia lifted a state of emer- out Tunisian territory,” the Essebsi blamed the poor
gency on Friday imposed statement from the presi- security in neighboring Lib-
nearly three months ago dent’s office said without ya for Tunisia’s problems,
following a massacre at elaboration. and the lack of interna-
a luxury beach hotel that Two days earlier, the In- tional resolve in targeting
killed 38, mainly British tour- terior Ministry announced the Islamic State group
ists, the president’s office the discovery by security throughout the region.
announced. forces of two cars near He maintained that Tuni-
The state-run TAP news the Libyan border filled sia specifically had been
agency carried the news with Kalashnikovs and gre- a target of the extremist
about the move that had nades, as well as docu- group because it had a
been expected. ments bearing the Islamic functioning, secular de-
President Beji Caid Essebsi State group’s signature. mocracy.
imposed the measure on The gunman behind the Under the state of emer-
July 4 for a month after beach attack, a student, gency, the army, de-
the June attack at a ho- was killed by police and ployed to guard sensitive
tel in the vacation region the Islamic State group sites, was authorized to
of Sousse — the second later claimed responsibil- shoot to kill if under threat.
deadly attack on foreign- ity for the massacre, which Rallies of more than three
ers in three months. He has dealt a blow to Tuni- people were banned in
then extended the state of sia’s tourism industry. Thirty theory only. However, the
emergency at the end of of the 38 dead in the at- country also armed itself
July for two more months tack were British tourists. with an aggressive anti-
— until the end of Septem- In March, gunmen killed 22 terrorism law on July 25.q
