2 dead after firing on police

Feb 17, 2016, 00:17

In a separate incident, a Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli paramilitary policeman at a checkpoint in the West Bank, near Jerusalem, and was shot dead.

Earlier, Israeli soldiers shot dead two other Palestinian teens on a northern West Bank road, after one opened fire with a rifle and the other wielded a knife, a military spokeswoman said.

The Post's Jerusalem bureau chief, William Booth, said he was interviewing Palestinian youths at Damascus Gate, an entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, when he and the paper's West Bank correspondent, Sufian Taha, were detained.

The teenage victims were identified as Nihad Raed Waked and Fuad Marwan Waked, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Late Sunday two Palestinians, both about 20 years old, attacked Israeli police just outside al-Quds Old City walls before being shot dead by occupation officers.

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The Palestinian health ministry identified the assailant as Naim Safi, 17, who was from a village near Bethlehem.

Hebron public prosecutor Ashraf Mishal told the Ma'an news agency that she could have survived the three gunshot wounds she suffered with medical attention, but soldiers had left her to bleed to death.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the incident occurred "a few minutes after a terrorist attack had taken place by a woman terrorist adjacent to that area".

"Of course this ensures that this conference will fail", he continued, "because if the Palestinians know that their demand will be met a priori, and they do not need to do anything, then there is certainly an internal contradiction here, because they will not do anything".

"We will never go back and sit again in a direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations".

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When they approached her, she took a knife out of her bag in an attempt to stab them, police said.

"Freedom of the press is a supreme value in the Israeli democracy", he said. The negotiations ended with little progress, and war soon broke out between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Upwards of half-a-million Israelis live in more than 150 Jewish-only settlements across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

The Palestinians claim these areas as parts of a future state, a position that has wide global support.

He stressed that a multilateral framework to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is needed and he praised an initiative discussed last month by France to revive plans for an global conference to end the conflict.

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