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WORLD NEWSSaturday 7 November 2015 Syrians new status
Palestinian shooting attacks signal escalation in West Bank
NASSER SHIYOUKHI prayers linked to Sarah, the out of the way unharmed Israeli fire in a confrontation BERLIN (AP) — German In-
Associated Press biblical matriarch believed and opened fire. Footage between stone-throwers
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — to be buried at the site. on Israeli TV showed bullet and Israeli troops, Gaza terior Minister Thomas de
Back-to-back Palestinian There was no immediate holes in the car’s front and health officials said.
shootings Friday wounded claim of responsibility for back windshields. The latest violence came Maiziere said Friday that
three Israelis, two of them the shooting. Guns and Sharawi’s son Ayoub, 52, after nearly two months of
seriously, the military said. assault rifles are available denied his mother, who Israeli-Palestinian confron- he wants to give many Syr-
The attacks signaled an and accessible in the West started driving in her 50s, tations.
escalation after a series of ians arriving in the country
Palestinian stabbings and
widespread stone-throwing a form of protection that
that marked the current
round of confrontations falls short of full asylum and
with Israel.
Israeli media said the wouldn’t allow them to
wounded were teens be-
tween the ages of 16 and bring relatives to Germany
19.
Earlier Friday, Israeli troops for two years.
shot and killed a 73-year-
old Palestinian woman in The Interior Ministry said the
what the military said was
an attempt to attack them idea was that Syrians who
with her car. Her son de-
nied she tried to harm any- don’t present authorities
one, and that she was on
her way to lunch with her with direct evidence of in-
sister when she was killed.
All three incidents took dividual persecution but
place in Hebron, the West
Bank’s largest city, which are fleeing the civil war in
has been the main area
of friction in recent weeks. general should be given
Hundreds of combat troops
guard about 850 Jewish “subsidiary protection,”
settlers in the center of He-
bron where they live amid something that falls short
tens of thousands of Pales-
tinians. of full asylum status but is
On Friday afternoon, shots
were fired at Jewish wor- granted to people who
shippers leaving a major
shrine in the Israeli-con- face serious risks in their
trolled downtown area,
wounding two people, one homeland. While people
of them seriously, the Israeli
military said. Searches for with full asylum status get a
the assailants were under-
way. three-year residence per-
Media reports said a
16-year-old was seriously mit, those with “subsidiary
wounded and an 18-year-
old was lightly hurt. They protection” get a one-year
said the shots were fired
from a distance. permit that can be extend-
The shrine is revered by Mus-
lims and Jews as the burial Israeli security forces secure the area where a Palestinian woman Tharwat Sharawi, 73, was shot ed repeatedly.
site of biblical patriarchs and killed in the West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015. Israeli soldiers shot and killed
and matriarchs. Thousands Sharawi at a West Bank gas station Friday in what the Israeli military alleged was an attempt by However, it appeared that
of Jewish worshippers vis- her to attack them with her car.
ited Hebron on Friday for de Maiziere’s idea wasn’t
(AP Photo/ Nasser Shiyoukhi)
discussed with the rest of
Merkel’s governing coali-
tion. Ralf Stegner, a deputy
Bank, including on the intended to harm anyone. The bloodshed was trig- leader of the center-left
black market and in the Sharawi, a mother of sev- gered by unrest at a major
possession of Palestinian en, was widowed in 1988 Jerusalem shrine revered Social Democrats, said his
militant groups. Hebron is when her husband died by both Muslims and Jews,
a stronghold of the Islamic from what Ayoub Sharawi and quickly spread to Isra- response was a “clear no.”
militant Hamas. said was tear gas fired by Is- el, the West Bank and the
Later Friday, an Israeli was raeli troops near a mosque. Gaza border. Chancellor Angela
shot and seriously wound- “If she had wanted to Israel has accused Palestin-
ed by shots to the head take revenge (for her hus- ian political and religious Merkel’s spokesman, Stef-
fired from a passing car on band’s death), she could leaders of inciting the vio-
the outskirts of Hebron, the have done that a long time lence. Palestinians say the fen Seibert, wrote later Fri-
military said. Israeli media ago,” Sharawi said. “There violence is due to a lack of
said the victim was 19 years is no way she wanted to run hope for gaining indepen- day on Twitter that there
old and critically injured. over soldiers.” dence after years of failed
Earlier Friday, 73-year-old Elsewhere in the West Bank, peace efforts. has been no change yet
Tharwat Sharawi was killed an Israeli man standing out- Since mid-September, 11
by army fire at a gas station side an Israeli-run supermar- Israelis were killed in Pal- to authorities’ processing
in Hebron, her family and ket was seriously wounded estinian attacks, most of
the Palestinian Health Min- in a Palestinian stabbing them in stabbings, while 72 practice for Syrians. “The
istry said. attack, and troops were Palestinians were killed by
The military said the wom- searching for the assailant, Israeli fire, including 45 who current practice remains,”
an’s car slowed down and the army said. Israel said were involved in
then sped toward the sol- On the Gaza-Israel border, attacks or attempted at- he wrote.
diers. It said troops jumped a Palestinian was killed by tacks. q
On Thursday, Merkel
and her coalition part-
ners agreed that people
with subsidiary protection
shouldn’t be able to bring
relatives to Germany for
two years.
De Maiziere told Deutsch-
landfunk radio that other
countries in similar situa-
tions grant residence “for a
limited time.q
