JERUSALEM (Washington Insider Magazine) – According to the Israeli armed forces, Palestinian attackers fatally shot a security personnel at the entryway of a Jewish community in the controlled West Bank late Friday. The new incident might exacerbate Palestinian-Israeli tensions, which have been rising in recent months.
The terrorists came at the Ariel community entrance early Saturday and killed the guard in his station before fleeing the area, according to the Israeli military. The suspects were pursued by the soldiers in the West Bank.
A 27-year-old Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during skirmishes in the district of Qalqilya early Saturday, according to the Palestinian Ministry Of health.
In the last 2 months, 15 Israelis have been killed in a series of Palestinian assaults in Israel and the West Bank. According to ABC NEWS, Israeli security personnel have murdered at least 27 Palestinians in recent weeks.
The Palestinian organisation Hamas, which rules Gaza, applauded the strike but did not claim credit.
Tensions at a prominent Jerusalem holy site have risen this month, with Palestinian worshippers fighting with Israeli forces on a regular basis. During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a growing number of Palestinians visit the site to worship at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s holiest site.
Earlier on Friday, Palestinians threw stones at the site, which has experienced a surge of violence in recent weeks, and Israeli police shot rubber-coated bullets.
According to the police, Palestinians within the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex began throwing stones and pyrotechnics at a heavily guarded gate leading to the Western Wall, the holiest location for Jews to pray, about daybreak. The cops stormed the facility, using rubber-coated bullets.
After some other Palestinians in the complex intervened and persuaded the stone throwers and police to back off, the violence stopped about an hour later.
More than 40 individuals were injured, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, with 22 requiring medical attention at local hospitals. During the confrontations, Israeli soldiers barred first responders from accessing the facility, and one of its medics was assaulted by police, according to the report. The reports that Israeli police barred medical professionals from visiting the region were dismissed by Israeli police as a “distorted” account of events. 3 individuals were also arrested, according to the report.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque complex is situated on a hilltop that is considered the holiest place for Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount since it was formerly home to Jewish temples. It’s been a hotspot in the Palestinian-Israeli dispute for a long time.
Several times in recent weeks, Israeli forces and Palestinians have battled there. Security personnel were compelled to intervene to stop stone-throwing, according to Israeli officials, who accuse Hamas of instigating violence.
According to the Palestinians, the installation of Israeli forces at the site, as well as frequent visits by a growing number of devout Jews and nationalists, is a breach of the site’s decades-old informal agreements. The visits were suspended last week for the final ten days of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that ends this weekend.