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Saturday, July 2, 2016
Hebron on lockdown after two days of deadly attacks
Israeli forces gather at the scene of a fatal crash after an Israeli car
was fired on near the West Bank city of Hebron on 1 July.APA images
Maureen Clare Murphy-1 July 2016
The Israeli military imposed closure on
the occupied West Bank city of Hebron and its surroundings on Friday,
affecting some 700,000 people, following a spike in deadly attacks over
the past two days.
An Israeli army spokesperson told the Ma’an News Agency that movement in
and out of the city and its surrounding villages would be closed
indefinitely.
The closure has been described by the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz as the largest since a massive crackdown following the kidnapping and slaying of three Israeli youths in the West Bank in June 2014.
The closure affects only Palestinians, and not Israelis living in settlements in the area, an army spokesperson told media.
Such collective punishment measures are considered war crimes under international law.
The closure was declared after an Israeli and two Palestinians were
killed in three separate incidents in the West Bank on Friday, and one
day after the slaying of an Israeli girl at a settlement,
after which her attacker was shot dead, and another Palestinian was
killed after allegedly stabbing and injuring two Israelis in the city of
Netanya.
Michael Marc, an Israeli who headed a religious school in the settlement
of Otniel, was killed and his wife critically injured when their car
crashed after being fired on near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron,
according to the Israeli army.
Two of their children sustained moderate and light wounds, Haaretz reported.
Haaretz added that a manhunt was underway for the suspected
gunman, believed to be from the West Bank village of Bani Naim, also
near Hebron.
Bani Naim was subjected to closure by
the Israeli military on Thursday after Muhammad Tarayra, a 19-year-old
from the village, stabbed to death 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel in her
bedroom in the Kiryat Arba settlement earlier in the day.
The youth was reportedly motivated by the death of his cousin Yusif Walid Tarayra, 18, who was shot deadduring
an alleged car ramming attack shortly after two other youths were slain
during a shootout with Israeli soldiers waiting at a bus stop near the
Kiryat Arba settlement in March.
Three Palestinians from Bani Naim were detained during arrest raids in
the predawn hours on Friday, and a fourth was arrested at a checkpoint
while on his way to Jerusalem, the Ma’an News Agency reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Thursday that he
would revoke the work permits of Tarayra’s relatives and demolish his
family’s home.
Israeli police claimed that the woman was killed after attempting to
stab soldiers at a checkpoint. No Israelis were reported injured during
the incident.
Gunshots can be heard during this video of the incident tweeted by Israel’s Channel 10:
כך נראה הירי במחבלת במערת המכפלה בחברון >> bit.ly/2959rqD
Shortly after Sarah Tarayra was killed, a 15-year-old girl was detained
at a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque for allegedly possessing a
knife.
An Israeli spokesperson told the Ma’an News Agency that the girl was being interrogated.
Also on Friday, Muhammad Mustafa Habash, 63, was pronounced dead after
he suffered excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired on
a crowd of Palestinians attempting to cross the Qalandiya checkpoint to
pray at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque on the last Friday of Ramadan.
Israel has prevented Palestinian men under the age of 45 from traveling to Jerusalem to pray at al-Aqsa, andfroze permits for 83,000 Palestinians to enter Jerusalem and Israel after two Palestinian gunmen killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv in early June.
Habash, from Asira al-Shamaliya village in the northern West Bank, was
one of at least 40 Palestinians injured by tear gas inhalation during
the incident.
Video from the scene shows mounted Israeli forces charging at
Palestinians and men fleeing from tear gas as soldiers speaking Arabic
threaten to use force against the crowd:
The office of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who paid his condolences to
Hallel Yaffa Ariel’s family in their Kiryat Arba home on Friday,
announced that it would withhold from the Palestinian Authority tax
payments collected from Palestinians.
Haaretz reported that
“Israel will immediately deduct the amount of money paid monthly by the
Palestinian Authority to terrorists and their families,” apparently
referring to stipends paid to family members of Palestinians killed by
Israeli occupation forces or during armed operations.
The amount deducted is likely to amount to millions of dollars per month, Haaretz added.
“Israel believes that the authority’s support of terror, both in terms
of incitement and in payments to terrorists and their families, are an
inducement to terror,” the prime minister’s office stated.
Despite such accusations and Israel’s measures of collective punishment, Israeli forces continue to cooperate closely with PA security forces to control the Palestinian population under occupation.
Israeli education minister Naftali Bennett told Haaretz that he intends to propose a series of measures at an emergency cabinet meeting on Saturday.
These would include arresting the mother and sister of Muhammad Tayrayra
and their forced transfer to another area of the West Bank due to their
praise of the attack, and cutting off Internet and cellular access in
the Hebron area to prevent the spread of what Israel calls incitement.
