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Monday 18 January 2016
Israeli army: Palestinian kills Israeli woman in West Bank
DANIELLA CHESLOW and lit the sky with flares Israeli soldiers stand guard at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank following an attack. A
Associated Press while searching for the as- Palestinian broke into a West Bank settlement home and fatally stabbed an Israeli woman before
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Pal- sailant. fleeing Sunday, touching off a massive night manhunt, the Israeli military said.
estinian broke into a West The military said no soldiers
Bank settlement home and were harmed in the earlier (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
fatally stabbed an Israeli incident, which took place
woman before fleeing Sun- near a base south of the
day, touching off a mas- West Bank city of Nablus.
sive night manhunt, the Is- Palestinian health officials
raeli military said. identified the assailant as
The attack occurred hours Wissam Qasrawi, 21, from
after another Palestinian Mesilyeh village near the
was shot dead by soldiers northern town of Jenin.
after trying to attack them Also on Sunday, Israeli po-
with a knife, it said. lice canceled a meeting
The latest incidents come at the Hakawati Theater,
amid a four-month wave the Palestinian national
of violence that Israel says theater in east Jerusalem.
is driven by Palestinian in- Theater board member
citement and the Palestin- Ibrahim Deabis said staff
ians say is rooted in frustra- planned to discuss its fi-
tion at decades of living nances with Palestinian
under Israeli occupation. Authority Culture Minister
In the later attack, the Pal- Ehab Bseiso.
estinian slipped into the Ot- “We were surprised be-
niel settlement, broke into cause this is not the first
the woman’s home and meeting like this in Jerusa-
killed her before fleeing the lem,” Deabis said. “The Is-
scene, the military said. Is- raelis are different now.”
raeli police identified the Israeli Public Security Min-
slain woman as Dafna Meir ister Gilad Erdan said he
and said she was a mother instructed police to shut
of six in her late 30s. down the meeting be-
Otniel is located near He- cause he learned the Pal-
bron, the West Bank’s larg- estinian Authority planned
est city and a frequent to sponsor an event at the
flashpoint of violence. Resi- theater. Erdan said such a
dents of the settlement hid move would be “a viola-
in their homes Sunday as tion of the sovereignty of
Israeli forces blocked roads the State of Israel.”q
UK Labour leader calls for back
channel to Islamic State group
LONDON (AP) — British op- be a route through some-
position leader Jeremy Cor- where,” particularly given
byn says there should be a that some IS command-
communications channel ers are former officers in
created with the Islamic the Iraqi Army. He says
State group in hopes of “there has to be some un-
ending the war in Syria. derstanding of where their
The Labour leader told strong points are, where
the BBC on Sunday that their weak points are.”
a back channel — similar Corbyn also reiterated his
to the one created with long-standing opposition
the Irish Republican Army to Britain’s Trident nuclear
during the decades-long deterrent and suggested
conflict in Northern Ireland that submarines could be
— should be established. deployed without nuclear
Corbyn says “There has to warheads on them. q
