Why Israelis are fearing a third intifada

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OCTOBER 7, 2015 1 SI. LOIIIS 5EWISH IIGHI I v11 WIVIV_SILIEIVISHIIGHI.COM JTAWORLD NEWS BRIEFS IDF officer removed after soldiers destroy journalists'cameras JERUSALEM-An Isrneli mili- tary officer was removed from his position after soldiers under his conlmand were seen on video destroying cameras belonging to journalists.

The disciplinary action was announced last Friday. a day after the ISe1 Defense Forces held a hearing on the Sept. 25 incident in the West Bank involving ihe filming of a Palestinian demon- stration by the French ne$ agen- Cy AFP. The IDF said it would ¢onsiderwhetheT to allowthe offi- cer to colltinue to berve in the military in any capacity.

He had been suspended following the incident. "This was a serious incident trom an ethical and comtnand perspective that will be investi- gated and its lessons learned," the IDF said tn a statement. The commander's attorney.

Eidan Pesach, said the officer, P•lestinianprotestersinthÈWest Bankthr1monesandl¥mY1IresdriTh9d8$he$Wlth IsraelisecurrtyforOverlheA1.A4$J identified only as , was "sacri- ficed on the altar of political alld diplomatic interests." During the incident near Nablus, soldiers smashed the cameras oftwo photogrnphers for BV8EKYU5 AFP as they filmed the demon- Tenh been hi* o¥er(onfiirtat homes and placing a curfew on their stration.

Agence France-Presse nejghbothoods. theTemple M(KmL said that one of the photographers The attacks even prompted harsh TEL AVIV- Fwst it was Clashes on was thrown to the ground and The two attacks followed weeks of words fmm the nornially conciliatory had a gun pointed at htm as he the Temple Mount.

Then a mother and tension over asS to Jerusalem's Israeli president, Reuven Rivlin. At a looked forhis press card. father were shotbefore the eyes oftheir Temple Moun¢ the holy stte known to eulogy at Lavi's funeral on Sunday, MembeTS of the officer's b2tt21- four chTrldren. Then two men were Muslims as Haram al-sharif.

Israel Rilrfin said tsraeli would find and pun- ion have said they will refuse to killed in a stabbing attack in barred a videTrt Islavnic pmtest group tsh tenDTiSts. "OUT enemies know how to hurt us, serve ill the next opeTation in pro- Jerusalem's Old City. frovnthe mount in eaty SeptembeT, set. test of the punishment.

Now Israelis fearthewave of confiict ting off demonstTrtion& stoTjethThry but will not defeat us," he said. "The More than 3,600 people have will only Tise. Here's why the Violen and arrest& and leaving one dead and fight against tenDrism requires deter- "liked" a Facebook page in sup- began. how it's escalated and what dozens injured.

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Israeli poli uncovered a reach the killers of the innocent and s[(kpi1e of pipe bombs, firelx)mbs and pure, and ive will reach their inciters that they feared would be aimed and their dispatchers, and will deliver IDP Palestinian boy shot Fourlsrnefishavethedffltwotemr atJewJsh W(ShIppet. them a stillngbI0W.- himself playing with gun Israel took action, too.

After the atta(ksoverthree day& In the unrest's wake. Israel height- JERUSALEM - A report by The slow-burntng Israeli-Pdlestinian enedp)lice presence inJen]sa]em's Old Saturday.night attack, the poli barred Palestinian parents that their conflict has flamed up inthe pa* week City.

The government al passed a law most Palesttnians fmm Jerusalem's Old 6-year-old son was shot in the with a series of teTrorist attacks. On that allows to fire MO quickly City for Sunday and Monday.

Access stomach by a Jewish settler was Thursday night, Tnilitants from the on Pale>tinian stone thTt)wers, as well was Testricted to ts"rneli citizens, tour- fabricated, the Israeli aTmy said. the asInCs]g pris(M sentencrs and fines" i5ts. students, Old City residents and Al-Aqsa Martyrs, Brigades The Isrnel Defense Forces found those doing business in the Old City.

In anned wing of Palestinian Authority 011 the stone thtDwe President Mahmolld Abbas.

Fatah in its investigation that the boy Violence at the Temple MoLmt has addition. all Muslim men under age 50 who was shot in Qalqilva, a West since died down, but rhetoric We banEd from the Temple Mount for party- shot aT]d killed a young Jewish-Israeli husband and Bank Palestinian city that borders around it remains tense.

Arab Sundav and Monday. wife, Rabbi Eitam and Naama rdated Kneet mentherJamal Zahalka the central Israeli city of Kfar editorial. Henkin.

Saba, was playing with a gun was shown in a video shouting Butthishashappened bÈfore-ontyto At the time, the Henkins. both pkige 10. owned by his brother, an 18-year- epithets at Jewish visitors to the old Palestinian police ofticer, in their early 30s, were driving MO1t on Tuesday. And in duel. fade. when it misftred on.Saknrday.

The through the northern West ing speeches io the United The past week's events have child is on life support- the Israeli Bank to their home in the settlement of Nations last week, Israeli Prime dominated the news and gotten lsrnelis militaTy interrogated the older Neria. The couple's four childn, ages Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and fearing the outbreak of broader brotheT.

4 months to 9 years, weTe in the car Palestinian Authority President Palestinian violence. On SatUTday night, Palestinian sources told the and witnessed the attack.

They were Mahmoud Abbas each accused the raeli Knesset opposition leader Isaac Israeli dailyHaoretz thatthe fam- lightly wounded and evacuated to a other SKle of Upse the delieate bal- Herzog wrote on Facebook that-we're an atthe site. hospital. ily may have lied to protect the at the opening of EL third intifad&" The brother and in order to be recog- Two days later. after Shabbat ended. first two violent Palestinian uprisings. nized as victims of settler terror- a terrorist killed two men in the Old in the late 1980s and early 2UOOs, left In reSponse,ISrde leadusaretaVAiig thousands of Isrdelis and Palestinians ism by the Palestinian Authority City of Jenksalem.

Aharon Bennett. a dead.

A third wave would destroy the and receive a payment from the 22-year-old Israeli soldier, was on the to and damping down. relative calm that Isrneiis have become p.A way to the Western Wall when he. his Israeli rhetoi-ic has intensified accustomed to since the second intifada The family said originally that wife and thetr two sons were attadied following the attacks.

Following the ended a decade ago. an Israeli driver stopped his car He was off duty and out of uniforni. killing of the HeTJkins, Transportation on the road outside of Qalqilya But though violence hag risen Cellt- His wife, Adele, 21, was seriously Millisier Yisrnel Katz wn)te Friday on and shot at the bOybefO fleeing, wounded and underwent eineigency Faceb(K)k: -The government will take ty, itwon't necessarilywoTBeD.

Previous the Palestinian Maan news ser- SUTgery. every necessary step to strengthen tx)uts have made IsTaelits conceTned vice reported. Maan later updated The secolldvicttm.

Nehemia Lavi, 41. security and settlement, and the alJ)ut an intifada, onty to wane after a its report to say that the IsraeLi was stabbed and killed when he tried Pal&stiniaTJS will pav a heavy price. fewweeks. tastyearsaw a stiing of ter- army rejected the'involvement of to fend off the terrorist with a gun.

Whoever wants to cross a line will Tist attacks in Jerusalem that did not Police shot and killed the terrorist. a ftEalize he is on the losing side.," sparkwider unrest. And a wave of riots Israeli civiltans" in the shooting. The report said that the P.A. 19-year-old Law student. On Sunday.

KatL who filled in for across the West Bank. prompted by the security service was following up And on Sunday. a Jewish teenager Netanyahu during the prime minister's death of aPalestinian detainee in Israeli reports about the shooting of the was wounded in a stabbing attack in trip to the U.N., wrote on Faceb(K>k that custody, led to the same fears in 2013, boy-after initial reports from rel- Jerusalem's Old Ciry.

He was ntshed to he stspwrts-heightened steps" against but the protests fizzled. atives appeared to be false.- the hospital, and his attacker was PalestinTran tem)r following the attack& Israelis and Palestinians can only killed by ¥x)li induding destroying the terrorists. ho that this timewill be similay.

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"Why Israelis are fearing a third intifada," Valley News, 7 October 2015. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2015-009. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2015-009