Three Israelis were killed and 15 others were injured in a spasm of attacks that took place early Tuesday in Jerusalem and in the central city of Ra'anana, northeast of Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu convened his top brass of ministers, a forum known as the security cabinet, to discuss further measures to curtail the wave of terror attacks, with right wing ministers pushing for a closure on Palestinian neighborhoods in east Jerusalem.
An Israeli official told Xinhua on Tuesday evening, the main topic on the cabinet's agenda is boosting police forces in bustling city centers and around Palestinian villages in east Jerusalem.
The official, who wished to remain anonymous as he was not authorized to discuss the matter with the press, said Israel would transfer non-combatant Israeli soldiers to reinforce police units, crumbling under the recent slew of lone-wolf attacks in Israeli towns.
The cabinet will also look into expediting the demolition of Palestinian attackers from east Jerusalem, a move aimed to deter future attackers, whose effectiveness was disputed by Israeli security forces over a decade ago.
While a full-on closure does not seem likely to be authorized, the cabinet is considering a more limited measure of erecting few checkup points in the entrance to Palestinian villages in east Jerusalem to perform security checks on residents, the Ha'aretz daily reported Tuesday.
If all goes according to plan, the Israeli security cabinet is set to authorize these moves throughout the night and authorities would implement them within the next few weeks.
Israel occupied east Jerusalem, along with the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast War, and annexed the Palestinian villages, now home to over 300,000 Palestinians, in 1981. They are residents but not citizens of Israel. Several of the perpetrators of recent stabbing attacks against Israelis, including the ones that occurred on Tuesday, reside in these neighborhoods.
Over the weekend, Netanyahu ordered to draft over 1,000 Israeli security border police guards in a bid to quell unrest. The Israeli army also boosted its forces in the West Bank on Tuesday amid ongoing violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces.
Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, Netanyahu told parliament members that Israel "would use all means available" to curb the surge of violent attacks throughout the country and fight terrorists, urging Palestinian President to stop the violence or he would be held accountable for any further escalation.
The recent wave of unrest started around the al-Aqsa compound but quickly spread into the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and also sparked massive protests by Arab Israelis, Palestinians who stayed in Israel after its establishment in 1948 and are Israeli citizens, constituting 20 percent of the population.
On Tuesday evening, about 20,000 Arab Israelis gathered in the Arab town of Sakhnin in northern Israel, calling to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and urging Israel to stop what they dub is its aggressive behavior at the al-Aqsa mosque compound.
Members of all Arab political factions took part in the protest, the largest of its kind since the start of the recent wave of violence. The protest was dispersed without any unusual incidents or arrests.
Many Arab businesses closed shop on Tuesday as a general strike was announced throughout the Arab Israeli sector amid Israel's policy of "killing and banishment" Israeli policy against the Palestinians. Business owners told Israeli media outlets that they have experienced a sharp decline in sales as Israelis do not come to shop there anymore.
Arab lawmaker Aiman Ouda from the Joint List of Arab parties said in a statement that the strike "expresses our determined struggle against the occupation and the incitement Arab Israelis suffer from." He said Arab Israelis "demand hope and a solution, not managing the conflict but ending it with real peace, ending the occupation and establishing a Palestinian state."
Ouda sent a letter to Israel's Attorney General on Tuesday, asking to open an investigation against Netanyahu for incitement against Arab Israelis, after the Israeli prime minister accused Arab lawmakers of incitement for violence during a parliament speech on Monday.
Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians on both sides of a fence separating the Gaza Strip enclave from Israel continued on Tuesday, after more than 10 Palestinians died in violent clashes with the Israeli army in the past several dies. Dozens were injured in clashes on Tuesday, Palestinian medics reported.
In one attack on Tuesday, Palestinian fired shots at a military vehicle riding along the fence, no injuries were reported. Forces were at the scene after several Palestinian managed to break down part of the fence, the Israeli military said on Tuesday.
Since the beginning of the unrest, Palestinians killed five Israelis in mainly stabbing attacks. Israeli security forces killed at least 29 Palestinians, among them victims of violent clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, and also alleged perpetrators of attacks against Israelis, who were gunned down at the scene of the attacks. More than a dozen Palestinians died in recent days in these clashes.
More than 1,4000 Palestinians need medical treatment, Palestinian medical sources said, in clashes with Israeli security forces. Most of them are injured from rubber bullets, tear gas and in some cases from live fire, means used by the Israeli military to disperse riots.
Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
14/10/15
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Jérusalem: Israël installe des checkpoints autour des quartiers palestiniens....
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