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WORLD NEWS 9
Monday 15 February 2016
Israel: 5 Palestinians killed
while attacking Israelis
DANIEL ESTRIN in the West Bank city of He- Palestinian mourners cry over the body of Nihad Waked, 15, who was shot dead by Israeli troops
Associated Press bron, according to police with Fouad Waked, 15, during their funeral in the village of Aeraqh near the West Bank city of
JERUSALEM (AP) — Five Pal- spokeswoman Luba Samri. Jenin, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016. The Israeli army said the two were throwing rocks at passing vehicles
estinians were killed and Security forces shot her, near the West Bank city of Jenin, and when Israeli forces arrived at the scene, one of the Palestin-
another critically wounded wounding her critically. No ians opened fire at them, soldiers fired back and killed the two Palestinians.
while attempting to attack Israelis were injured.
Israelis in four separate in- In the last five months, Pal- Associated Press
cidents in the West Bank estinian stabbings, shoot-
and Jerusalem on Sunday, ings and vehicular assaults
according to the Israeli po- have killed 27 Israelis. At
lice and military. No Israelis least 162 Palestinians, the
were injured in the attacks. majority of whom Israel
Late Sunday, two Palestin- says were attackers, have
ians were fatally shot after been killed by Israeli fire.
they opened fire with au- Israel says the ongoing vio-
tomatic weapons on Israeli lence is fueled by a cam-
security forces near Jerusa- paign of incitement by
lem’s Damascus Gate. Palestinian leaders that is
Earlier Sunday, the military compounded on social
said two Palestinians were media sites that glorify at-
throwing rocks at passing tacks. Palestinians say it
vehicles near the West Bank stems from frustration at
city of Jenin, and when se- nearly five decades of Is-
curity forces arrived the raeli rule and dwindling
Palestinians opened fire hopes for gaining indepen-
at them. The soldiers fired dence.
back and killed the two Also Sunday, a watchdog
Palestinians, the military group said Israel began
said, adding that no sol- building 1,800 new settle-
diers were wounded in the ment homes in the West
exchange. Bank in 2015.
The Palestinian Health Min- Peace Now, a dovish Israeli
istry identified the victims as group that tracks settle-
Nihad Waked and Fouad ment construction, said
Waked, both 15 years old. most of the building has
They were from the same taken place in isolated
extended family in the settlements in areas of the
West Bank village of al-Ara- West Bank that Israel would
ka, near Jenin, but were likely evacuate in the event
not close relatives. of a peace agreement
Later, at a West Bank se- with the Palestinians.
curity checkpoint on the Israel captured the West
outskirts of Jerusalem, a Bank, Gaza Strip and east
Palestinian gripping a knife Jerusalem in the 1967 Mid-
ran at Israeli paramilitary east War and built settle-
border police officers, and ments there. Israel with-
an officer shot and killed drew from Gaza in 2005,
him, Israeli police said. No but nearly 600,000 Israeli
Israeli were injured. The settlers remain in east Jeru-
Palestinian Health Ministry salem and the West Bank.
identified the Palestinian The Palestinians claim
as 17-year-old Naim Safi of these areas as parts of a
Abadiya village near Beth- future state, a position that
lehem. has wide global support.
In the evening, a 21-year- They view Israeli settlement
old Palestinian woman construction as a major
tried to stab a border po- obstacle to resolving the
lice officer at a checkpoint conflict.q
