ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/ JERUSALEM DEATHS Palestinian-Israeli violence intensifies after Jerusalem stabbings

Record ID: 134925

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/ JERUSALEM DEATHS Palestinian-Israeli violence intensifies after Jerusalem stabbings
  • Date: 10th October 2015
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (OCTOBER 10, 2015) (REUTERS) BYSTANDERS STANDING NEAR SHOP WHERE STABBING OF ISRAELI TOOK PLACE / POLICE OFFICER RIDING HORSE PALESTINIAN WOUNDED BY A RUBBER BULLET TO THE FACE BEING CARRIED OUT TO AMBULANCE ON STRETCHER WOUNDED PALESTINIAN PLACED IN AMBULANCE / DOES PEACE SIGN ISRAELI SOLDIER ARRESTING PALESTINIAN PROTESTER
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2015 12:00
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  • Location: Jerusalem
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  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA92HQVM55FVMGOGVOT0S21BLHU
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Two Palestinians were shot dead on Saturday (October 10) by police after stabbing four Israelis in separate knife attacks near Jerusalem's walled Old City, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
    Eleven days of bloodshed in which four Israelis and 19 Palestinians have been killed in Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Gaza and in Israeli cities have raised concerns about a new Palestinian uprising.
    Soldiers arrested protesters and Palestinians wounded by rubber bullets in clashes with Israeli security were taken to hospitals by ambulance.
    The violence has been fuelled by Palestinian fears that visits by Jewish groups and lawmakers to the Jerusalem Old City plaza revered in Judaism as the site of two destroyed biblical temples, are eroding Muslim religious control of the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest shrine.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he will not allow any change to the arrangements under which Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim prayer is banned.
    His assurances over conditions at the site, known as Temple Mount to Jews and Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, have done little to quell alarm among Muslims across the region.
    The almost daily Palestinian knife attacks and clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing Palestinians are not at the levels of violence of past Palestinian uprisings, but the escalation has prompted talk of a third "intifada".
    Both Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have called for calm and Palestinian police continue to coordinate with Israeli security forces to try to restore order, but there are few signs of the violence dying down.
    Palestinians want East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza - lands Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, for a future state. U.S.-brokered peace talks broke down in April 2014.
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