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10-19-2015, 12:02 PM
the world is crazy. will there be more war? scary
http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/palestine/israeli-mob-lynches-african-asylum-seeker-after-palestinian-attacks-soldier-1.1602869
Israeli mob lynches African asylum seeker after Palestinian attacks soldier
Mob beats Eritrean after he was shot, thinking he was a Palestinian attacker
Published: 13:58 October 19, 2015 Gulf News
Occupied Jerusalem: An Eritrean asylum seeker has died after being shot and beaten by a mob during an attack in Israel, as a wave of violence spread fear and defied international calls for calm.
More than two weeks of violence and unrest have raised warnings of the risk of a full-scale Palestinian uprising, while some Israeli politicians have urged residents to arm themselves to fend of the threat of stabbings and gun assaults.
The attacks, and violent protests which have erupted across Palestine, have prompted a range of security measures including the erection of a wall in occupied East Jerusalem.
Sunday night’s mob violence came after a gunman also armed with a knife stormed a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding around 10 others.
The gunman was killed, while a security guard at the bus station shot the 26-year-old Eritrean thinking he was a second attacker. A mob also beat him after he was shot, Israeli media reported.
Police identified the attacker as a Mohannad Al Aqaby, 21, a Palestinian citizen of Israel from the area. Palestinian citizens make up some 17.5 per cent of the Israeli citizen population and are largely supportive of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
“During a raid last night, security forces and Shin Bet (internal security agency) arrested one of his family members, who was accused of providing support” for the attack, the Israeli regime’s police said on Monday.
Video that spread online appears to show the Eritrean lying on the ground after being shot and receiving blows to the head and body from angry bystanders.
Israeli media described him as an asylum seeker, like many Eritreans who have come to Israel, though authorities have not confirmed those details.
The regime’s figures show some 45,000 “illegal immigrants” are in the country, almost all from Eritrea and Sudan. About two-thirds are Eritrean.
The relentless violence has defied an Israeli security crackdown as well as international calls for both sides to calm tensions. Many of the attacks have seen young Palestinians with knives stabbing Israelis, mostly soldiers, before being shot dead by occupation forces.
The occupation authorities had already set up checkpoints in Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem, where the majority of attackers have been from, and some 300 soldiers have begun reinforcing police.
On Sunday, the regime controversially began erecting a wall between the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighbourhood of Jebel Al Mukabar and Jewish colony of Armon Hanatziv.
The Zionist Union, the centre-left coalition which leads opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, heavily criticised the move.
“Netanyahu officially divided Jerusalem today,” it said in a statement. “Netanyahu has lost the ability to keep the safety of Israel’s citizens and Jerusalem’s unity.”
Netanyahu has come under heavy criticism over the attacks, while Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s calls for peaceful protest have failed to stop frustrated youths fed up with his leadership and Israel’s right-wing government.
Most of the attackers appear to have been acting on their own, without direction from any movements.
At least 41 Palestinians have died since the start of the month, including alleged attackers, while eight Israelis have been killed.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is due to meet separately with both Netanyahu and Abbas in the coming days, as well as Jordan’s King Abdullah, who has previously acted as a mediator.
Israel was also to again voice its opposition on Monday to French proposals to send international observers to occupied Jerusalem’s Al Haram Al Sharif, with France’s ambassador summoned to the Israeli foreign ministry.
Clashes at the compound between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters in September preceded the current wave of violence.
Muslims fear Israel will seek to change rules governing the site, located in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem.
The site is the third holiest in Islam.
— with inputs from agencies
http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/palestine/israeli-mob-lynches-african-asylum-seeker-after-palestinian-attacks-soldier-1.1602869
Israeli mob lynches African asylum seeker after Palestinian attacks soldier
Mob beats Eritrean after he was shot, thinking he was a Palestinian attacker
Published: 13:58 October 19, 2015 Gulf News
Occupied Jerusalem: An Eritrean asylum seeker has died after being shot and beaten by a mob during an attack in Israel, as a wave of violence spread fear and defied international calls for calm.
More than two weeks of violence and unrest have raised warnings of the risk of a full-scale Palestinian uprising, while some Israeli politicians have urged residents to arm themselves to fend of the threat of stabbings and gun assaults.
The attacks, and violent protests which have erupted across Palestine, have prompted a range of security measures including the erection of a wall in occupied East Jerusalem.
Sunday night’s mob violence came after a gunman also armed with a knife stormed a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding around 10 others.
The gunman was killed, while a security guard at the bus station shot the 26-year-old Eritrean thinking he was a second attacker. A mob also beat him after he was shot, Israeli media reported.
Police identified the attacker as a Mohannad Al Aqaby, 21, a Palestinian citizen of Israel from the area. Palestinian citizens make up some 17.5 per cent of the Israeli citizen population and are largely supportive of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
“During a raid last night, security forces and Shin Bet (internal security agency) arrested one of his family members, who was accused of providing support” for the attack, the Israeli regime’s police said on Monday.
Video that spread online appears to show the Eritrean lying on the ground after being shot and receiving blows to the head and body from angry bystanders.
Israeli media described him as an asylum seeker, like many Eritreans who have come to Israel, though authorities have not confirmed those details.
The regime’s figures show some 45,000 “illegal immigrants” are in the country, almost all from Eritrea and Sudan. About two-thirds are Eritrean.
The relentless violence has defied an Israeli security crackdown as well as international calls for both sides to calm tensions. Many of the attacks have seen young Palestinians with knives stabbing Israelis, mostly soldiers, before being shot dead by occupation forces.
The occupation authorities had already set up checkpoints in Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem, where the majority of attackers have been from, and some 300 soldiers have begun reinforcing police.
On Sunday, the regime controversially began erecting a wall between the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighbourhood of Jebel Al Mukabar and Jewish colony of Armon Hanatziv.
The Zionist Union, the centre-left coalition which leads opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, heavily criticised the move.
“Netanyahu officially divided Jerusalem today,” it said in a statement. “Netanyahu has lost the ability to keep the safety of Israel’s citizens and Jerusalem’s unity.”
Netanyahu has come under heavy criticism over the attacks, while Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s calls for peaceful protest have failed to stop frustrated youths fed up with his leadership and Israel’s right-wing government.
Most of the attackers appear to have been acting on their own, without direction from any movements.
At least 41 Palestinians have died since the start of the month, including alleged attackers, while eight Israelis have been killed.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is due to meet separately with both Netanyahu and Abbas in the coming days, as well as Jordan’s King Abdullah, who has previously acted as a mediator.
Israel was also to again voice its opposition on Monday to French proposals to send international observers to occupied Jerusalem’s Al Haram Al Sharif, with France’s ambassador summoned to the Israeli foreign ministry.
Clashes at the compound between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters in September preceded the current wave of violence.
Muslims fear Israel will seek to change rules governing the site, located in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem.
The site is the third holiest in Islam.
— with inputs from agencies