Monday, February 15, 2016

3 PALESTINIAN ATTACKERS KILLED IN WEST BANK VIOLENCE.

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Three Palestinian attackers killed in new West Bank violence-AFP By Imad Saada-FEB 14,16-YAHOONEWS

Nablus (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Two 15-year-old Palestinians fired on Israeli soldiers before being killed in the occupied West Bank Sunday, and another two were shot -- one fatally -- in attempted stabbings, Israeli authorities said.The incidents were the latest in a wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming assaults that erupted in October.They came as US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power visited Israel and the Palestinian territories for talks with leaders from both sides.In the first incident, the two teenagers attacked an Israeli patrol west of the city of Jenin with rocks before firing on soldiers with a rifle, an army statement said."The force responded to the shooting and fired towards the attackers, resulting in their deaths," it said.The Palestinian health ministry named those killed as Nihad Waked and Fuad Waked, both 15 years old. They were not thought to be closely related.Later in the day, a Palestinian tried to stab Israeli border police between Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank before being shot dead, Israeli authorities said.The Palestinian health ministry identified the assailant as Naim Safi, 17, who was from a village near Bethlehem.Also on Sunday, a young Palestinian woman tried to stab an Israeli policeman but was shot in the attempt in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli police said.She was taken to hospital in critical condition.Police said the attacker drew a knife on a border police officer at a checkpoint and the officer, who was unharmed, shot her. She was identified as Yasmin al-Zaru, 20.The incident took place close to the shared religious site known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque.Tensions are high at the site -- a 17-year-old Palestinian was shot dead in a stabbing attempt there on Saturday.Since the current round of bloodshed erupted at the beginning of October, 170 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces.Most were carrying out attacks but others died during clashes and demonstrations.The violence has claimed the lives of 26 Israelis, as well as an American, a Sudanese and an Eritrean, according to an AFP count.Many of the assailants have been teenagers who appear to have acted on their own.Some analysts say Palestinian frustration with Israeli occupation and settlement building in the West Bank, the complete lack of progress in peace efforts and their own fractured leadership have fed the unrest.Israel blames incitement by Palestinian leaders and media as a main cause of the violence.Questions have been raised over whether Israeli forces have used excessive force in certain cases, allegations which they firmly reject.International efforts to halt the violence have so far failed.US ambassador Power said she intended to discuss her country's "commitment to two states side-by-side in security and peace" during her visit.

Time for Arab states to publicize their Israel ties, Netanyahu says-Most moderate countries in region see Israel as ally, not enemy, PM tells visiting US Jewish leaders, urging more openness about covert contacts-By Times of Israel staff and Raphael Ahren February 14, 2016, 10:52 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said it was time for some Arab states with which Israel has covert ties to publicly acknowledge those relationships.Addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the prime minister maintained that most moderate Arab countries see Israel as their ally, not their enemy, as they share a common struggle against Iran and the Islamic State.“Major Arab countries are changing their view of Israel … they don’t see Israel anymore as their enemy, but they see Israel as their ally, especially in the battle against militant Islam with its two fountainheads,” he said in English. “Now, this is something that is forging new ties, many of them discreet, some of them open. And I think there too we can expect and should expect and should ask to see a change.”The prime minister did not elaborate on that issue.Netanyahu, who was addressing more than 100 leaders from the Conference’s 53 member organizations, thanked the delegates for “taking the message of Israel far and wide” — a reference to recent visits to Turkey and Egypt by Conference members. He emphasized his commitment to the unity of the Jewish people saying, “All Jews must feel at home and welcome in Israel.”Netanyahu identified two parallel contradictory trends worldwide. On the one hand, there was an ongoing multinational hostility toward Israel at the UN, ICC, and EU, together with what he termed an “obsession” with Israel in international forums. “We’ve had some efforts to change at least the EU,” he said. “But we know that in many of these multinational forums, Israel is singled out. I hope that one day we’ll receive a double standard because right now, we’re not enjoying a double standard; we are suffering a triple standard… There’s one standard for the dictatorships. They’re usually exempt. The other is for the democracies and there’s still a third standard for the democracy called Israel.On the other hand, he said, countries like China, India, Russia and Japan were warming their ties to Israel because of their concern with militant Islam and the terrorism it produces and to benefit from Israeli operational experience and intelligence in fighting terror as well as Israeli technologies, such as cyber security, improved water management and desalination, agriculture and biotechnology. “We need these countries who are coming to us to change their votes in international forums,” he said.“We shouldn’t be shy about it. We shouldn’t accept that there is this strange dichotomy and dissonance between the friendship and the alliances that are being built between Israel and the many countries, and the way they vote about Israel in international forums. I think that’s true of the EU; it’s true of the Organization for African Unity; it’s true in Latin America. And I think we should press this point home, because as interests shift, as Israel becomes such an important country internationally, it’s important that this will be reflected in international forums as well.”Netanyahu’s remarks came the same day as Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said there were open channels between Israel and other Arab states, but the “sensitive” situation prevents him from shaking hands with Arab officials in public. He later publicly shook the hand of Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud.Turki is the rare Saudi official who has met openly with a number of Israeli officials in the past.Israel’s covert ties with Sunni Arab states are such that while they cannot display signs of cordiality in public, “we can meet in closed rooms,” said Ya’alon at the Munich Security Conference.“But we do have channels to speak with our Sunni Arab neighboring countries. Not just Jordan and Egypt — Gulf states, North African states,” Ya’alon said. “For them, Iran is an enemy.”Ya’alon, speaking in English, maintained that the Arab states are “frustrated and furious at the lack of Western support.”Saudi Arabia and other Arab states maintain they will only normalize ties with the Jewish state once a peace deal is reached with the Palestinians via a two-state solution.Israel has long said there are secret back-channel talks between Jerusalem and Sunni states, which share common concerns over Iranian hegemony in the region.Netanyahu told the conference Sunday that increased ties with the Arab states could help pave the way toward an agreement with the Palestinians, an oft-repeated claim.“I think that is very clear given the, what I regret to say is the disfunctionality that I often see in Palestinian politics, and I think that the encouragement of Arab states, leading Arab states, for a more realistic position on the part of the Palestinian Authority might contribute to a stabilizing situation and even advancing to a better future,” he said.He also highlighted the paramount importance of Israel’s ties to the US. “I want to say emphatically that we have no illusions that America remains the best friend of the State of Israel. The United States and Israel are the greatest allies. And I deeply appreciate the support of President Obama, the Congress, the American people. We’re working together today on an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding on security aid),” he noted. “I hope that we can complete it soon, and we certainly will welcome Vice President Biden, who will come to visit us. I think it’s another reflection of this deep friendship between our countries.“And I think the American people understand that in this turbulent Middle East and this turbulent world, America has no better friend than Israel and Israel has no better friend than the United States of America,” Netanyahu said.

2 Palestinians shoot at Jerusalem police, are killed in gunbattle-No reports of injuries among police or bystanders after late-night attack at Damascus Gate entrance to Old City-By Times of Israel staff February 14, 2016, 11:07 pm

Two Palestinians opened fire on police officers in Jerusalem late Sunday, and were killed in the ensuing gunbattle, police said.The gunmen, carrying automatic weapons, shot at a group of Border Police officers near the Old City’s Damascus Gate. The officers were receiving their nightly briefing before beginning patrols in the area.The officers fired back, hitting one assailant instantly and beginning a pursuit after the second, who was still shooting at the officers. The second attacker was soon hit by police fire.Both attackers were residents of the West Bank and were killed in the battle, police said. There were no injuries among officers or bystanders.No explosives were found on the gunmen’s bodies or in the area, police said, after roping off the area over fears they could have been carrying bombs. Palestinian media reported that one Palestinian man was arrested in the area shortly after the incident.The site was the scene of a fatal attack on February 3, in which Border Police officer Hadar Cohen, 19, was killed in a Palestinian shooting and stabbing attack. The attackers in that incident had carried pipe bombs to the site of the attack.Police units at the scene of attack near Damascus gate. Heightened security continues in the area. pic.twitter.com/SVQjuw3shY-— Micky Rosenfeld (@MickyRosenfeld) February 14, 2016-The Sunday shooting came on the tail end of a particularly bloody day that saw a significant uptick in Palestinian attacks, as a nearly five-month-old wave of violence seemed to return to full force, with five Palestinians being killed amid a series of attacks on Israeli targets.Earlier Sunday night, shots were fired at a house in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, causing damage but no injuries. Security forces were investigating the incident and searching the area. A bullet penetrated the window of a residential home, according to initial reports. No injuries were reported.The gunfire may have come from the nearby Palestinian village of Jalazoun, authorities said.The gunfire followed three separate attempted stabbing attacks Sunday.Earlier in the evening, Border Police officers thwarted an attempted stabbing near the Tomb of the Patriarchs shrine in the West Bank city of Hebron, police said. The alleged assailant, a Palestinian girl initially identified as 14 years old, was shot and critically wounded.In the afternoon, a Palestinian man was shot and killed after trying to stab officers at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem.On Sunday morning, two Palestinian teens near Jenin in the northern West Bank were shot and killed after opening fire on security forces who were responding to reports of stone throwers in the area.

Bus driver in crash that kills 6 had collided with truck on same road in 2013-Driver was only recently allowed to return to intercity routes; regular passenger says his reckless driving meant disaster was matter of time-By Times of Israel staff and Judah Ari Gross February 15, 2016, 1:35 am

The bus driver involved in Sunday’s deadly collision on Highway 1 crashed on the same route in 2013, also smashing into a truck and overturning the vehicle on the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv artery.Six died and a dozen were injured in Sunday evening’s collision between the crowded intercity bus 402 and a truck near the city of Ramle.Several passengers were injured in the bus driver’s previous incident, and as a result the Egged bus company banned him from intercity routes.The ban was only lifted a few weeks ago and he was permitted to drive the Jerusalem to Tel Aviv line once again, Channel 2 reported.The bus driver told police Sunday that he didn’t notice the truck stopped on the side of the highway, and investigators believe the bus driver’s inattention to traffic caused him to swerve out of his lane and collide with the truck parked on the side of the road.Photos of the collision showed the right side of the bus wrenched apart. Channel 2 reported that the truck’s crane ripped the bus open, injuring and killing passengers seated on the right side.The truck driver told police investigators he heard noises coming from his engine, so he had stopped on the right shoulder of the highway. “Just as I got out of the truck, the same minute, the bus came and slammed into the rear end.”The driver of the truck, an East Jerusalem native, suffered light injuries and was detained by police. The bus driver was later held for questioning as well.The bus was the 402 line from Jerusalem to Bnei Brak. It was filled to capacity with passengers, according to Channel 2.A regular passenger on the 402 line who was familiar with the driver said he was often reckless and claimed he frequently broke safety codes. The passenger cited excessive speed, a failure to maintain a safe distance from other vehicles, and a failure to stay focused on the road. The passenger told Channel 2 that an accident like Sunday’s was merely a matter of time.Yaakov Hashin, 27, Yisrael Weinberg, 26, Haya Frankel, 23, and Levi Yitzhak Amdadi, 17, were named as four of the fatalities.Hashin, a young ultra-Orthodox man, was on his way to a match-making date in Bnei Brak, Walla news reported. Weinberg was heading to a family wedding in the same city. Frankel and her husband just celebrated their second wedding anniversary; her husband was also aboard and was lightly injured in the accident. All three were residents of Jerusalem. Amdadi was from the town of Yavne’el, near the Sea of Galilee.The names of the other two victims were not immediately released for publication. They were reportedly children.Sara Shpringer, 20, of Jerusalem, remained in serious condition at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Rishon Lezion early Monday morning. She was undergoing surgery, but a doctor told Ynet that there was no immediate risk to her life.Shpringer’s sister was among the dozen people lightly injured in the collision, which occurred, near the Anava Interchange, east of Ramle.“It is a difficult scene, with a bus that likely crashed into a truck on the shoulder [of the highway],” said United Hatzalah paramedic Yehiel Miller. “Unfortunately, when I arrived on the scene, I came across a boy and two girls who were unconscious, with no pulse and who were not breathing. Also, several adults who were unconscious and a lot of passengers who were conscious and suffered injuries.”

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