Israel presses security measures in Jerusalem
Israel is not the problem at the Temple Mount, Israel is the solution. We will protect the status quo, we are the only ones who are doing this and we will continue to do it responsibly and seriously.
JERUSALEM: Israel pressed ahead with major security measures Sunday after five more stabbing incidents, while ultra-Orthodox Jews illegally visiting a West Bank holy site set ablaze last week were assaulted by Palestinians.
The incident at the holy site overnight and the stabbing attacks or attempts on Saturday came after more than two weeks of relentless violence and unrest, raising fears of a full-scale Palestinian uprising.
Israel has set up checkpoints in Palestinian areas of east Jerusalem, where many of the knife attackers have come from, and hundreds of soldiers have reinforced their patrols, but frustrated youths have defied efforts to prevent violence.
Most of the attackers have been young Palestinians wielding knives and believed to be acting on their own, likely knowing they will probably be killed.
Including alleged assailants, 41 Palestinians have been killed since an upsurge in violence began on October 1, while seven Israelis have lost their lives. Violent protests have also erupted in annexed east Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Prime Minister of Israel
On Saturday, four Palestinians were shot dead and a fifth was wounded in attacks on Israelis in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. Three of Saturday’s attacks took place in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, where some 500 Jewish settlers live in a heavily guarded enclave in the city centre surrounded by nearly 200,000 Palestinians. A fourth was at a checkpoint in a Jewish settlement neighbourhood of Israeliannexed east Jerusalem, and a fifth at another checkpoint.
All of the incidents involved a Palestinian assailant attempting to stab an Israeli. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top security agencies have alleged that they have uncovered a R&AW plot to kill prime minister Nawaz Sharif and JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.
In a note issued by the Punjab home department, it was stated that India’s premier intelligence agency, RAW, in collusion with some banned organisations, could hit important political personalities, including Premier Nawaz.