ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/STABBING Arab citizen rams, stabs four in northern Israel - police

Record ID: 135210

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/STABBING Arab citizen rams, stabs four in northern Israel - police
  • Date: 11th October 2015
  • Summary: GAN SHMUEL, ISRAEL (OCTOBER 11, 2015) (REUTERS) + NIGHT SHOTS + ISRAELI SECURITY AT STABBING SCENE AROUND SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE
  • Embargoed: 26th October 2015 12:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA6XZLKMPHZ37V1GBF1L3MC5Y3S
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    An Arab citizen of Israel stabbed four people at a bus stop in northern Israel on Sunday (October 11), Israeli police said.
    The attack took place in Gan Shmuel near the town of Hadera in northern Israel in the evening. Police said an Israeli Arab rammed a bus stop with his car, wounding one person and then got out of his vehicle and stabbed others.
    Four people were injured, a local police commander said and one woman, an army conscript, was reported to be in serious condition while three others were lightly hurt.
    Israel's cabinet unanimously approved imposing minimum four-year jail terms on Palestinian petrol bombers and rock throwers and issuing harsher fines as an emergency measure, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
    "We are doing this as a temporary emergency measure so that we can examine the implementation, and if there is the need, we will make the law even harsher," Netanyahu said in a statement.
    Four Israelis and 24 Palestinians have died in 12 days of bloodshed fuelled in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. Violence has spread from the holy city and the West Bank to Israel's interior and Hamas-ruled Gaza.
    Against a backdrop of Muslim protests over Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa plaza, Islam's third holiest site and also revered by Jews as the site of biblical temples, Palestinians have been attacking Israelis with knives, rocks and, on at least one occasion, guns.
    Palestinians regard the increasing visits over the past year by Jewish groups and right-wing lawmakers to the compound in Jerusalem's walled Old City as eroding traditional Muslim religious control there.
    Israel has said it has no intention of allowing any change to the status quo under which Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim prayer is banned.
    Tensions have also been stoked by Palestinian frustration over the failure to make progress - amid Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank - toward statehood in peace talks with Israel. Those negotiations collapsed in 2014.
    Palestinians seek a state in the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem - which includes the Old City - as their capital. Israel captured all three areas in the 1967 Middle East war. It withdrew soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005.
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