An Israeli woman and soldier killed in knife attack
Jerusalem (AsiaNews) - An Israeli woman and a soldier have been stabbed to death in two separate attacks in Tel Aviv and in the Occupied Territories.
The woman, Dalia Lamkus, 26, was at
a bus stop yesterday near the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut. The assailant, Hamdi Maher
al-Hashlamon, first tried to drive his car into the
group, but rammed it against concrete
protection barriers. He got out of the
car and attacked the woman and two others present with a
knife. The attacker shot dead by guards
at the entrance of the settlement.
The attack took place near the spot
where June last three young Israelis were kidnapped and then killed. The incident also resulted in the killing of a young 17 year old Palestinian
from Jerusalem by
some Israeli extremists. The two
killings spawned growing tension
which opened a new chapter in the
war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which lasted 50 days.
In the attack in Tel Aviv, a 17 year old Palestinian stabbed Shiloni Almog, an Israeli soldier of 20, near the train station. The soldier died yesterday from his injuries. The young Palestinian was arrested. Police said he is originally from a refugee camp near Nablus, in the north of the occupied territories and had entered Israel illegally.
The attack in Tel Aviv shows that there is a growing tension in areas which thus far had remained quiet. In recent weeks, in two separate attacks, Palestinian militants have rammed their cars into pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing four people. The two assailants were killed. This latest wave of violence has been triggered by provocations by Zionist settlers and rabbis who claim the right to pray on the Temple Mount, demanding a change to the status quo in Jerusalem.
Yesterday at Kafr Kana demonstrations
and clashes continued and calm only returned in the afternoon, while
Israeli Arabs gathered at the family home of Hamdane
Kheir, 22, killed by police after threatening some of them with a knife. A video security camera shows that the young man was shot in the back as he walked away from the police car, without presenting
any threat to them.
In Sakhnin, 1500 high
school students held an assembly in
front of the City Hall to criticize
the killing of Hamdane and protests
at the Temple Mount. In Nazareth, yesterday evening, some protesters blocked the main road and burned some tires.
Comments from members of the government have added fuel to the wrath of Israeli Arabs. Yesterday, the Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch expressed his "full support" for the actions of those who killed Hamdane. The mayor of Kafr Kana, Mujahed Awadeh, has condemned the attitude of the minister as "a stain on Israel's democracy." "If Kafr Kana was a Jewish town - he said - he would have to resign, but this is an Arab village".
Israeli Arabs - about 1.7 million in Israel - complain of being treated like second-class citizens. In the areas inhabited by them, there is high unemployment, less infrastructure, less transport, less government spending. Their access to higher levels of education is very limited.
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