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Israel announced Friday the construction of new housing in a settlement in the occupied West Bank, in response to a Palestinian attack that killed an Israeli in this settlement.
Thursday evening, a 17-year-old Palestinian is infiltrated in Adam's colony, near Ramallah, and attacked Israelis with a knife. One of them, Yotam Ovadia, 31, succumbed to his injuries in the night and two other Israelis were wounded.
One of the three Israelis attacked shot the Palestinian, Mohammed Dar Youssef, and
"The best response to terrorism is the strengthening of settlements (…)," Lieberman said on Twitter, announcing the construction of 400 homes in the Adam settlement. [19659002OnFridaymorningclasheseruptedbetweenPalestiniansandIsraeliforcesinthevillageofKobarwestofRamallahfromwherethePalestinianbadailantwasfromanAFPjournalistsaid
security checks conducted by soldiers at the entrance and exit of the village, about 150 Palestinians threw stones, incendiary bombs and burning tires at soldiers who responded with riot dispersal means, indicated the army in a statement. [1 9659007] According to the Palestinian press agency Wafa, three Palestinians were arrested in the clashes that left no one wounded.
The Hamas Islamist movement, in power in the Gaza Strip, on Friday called the attack "The courageous operation resulting from the daily crimes of the Israeli occupation."
The last Palestinian knife attack in a West Bank settlement dates back to April, when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli with a screwdriver near a service station near the settlement of Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem. The badailant, shot, succumbed the following day.
– Vengeance –
In recent years, many knife attacks against Israelis have been carried out by Palestinians whom the Israeli authorities describe as "lone wolves"
Thursday's attack came amid recurrent violence between the Israeli army and Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, the armed wing of Hamas promised to avenge the death of three of them. its members, killed the day before in Israeli raids carried out in retaliation for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, which wounded an Israeli soldier.
"The enemy will pay a high price for the crime he commits daily against the rights of our people and our fighters, "warned the Ezzedine al-Qbadam brigades, the military wing of Hamas.
On Saturday, Hamas announced a ceasefire in the aftermath of a violence killing four Palestinians and one Israeli soldier – the first Israeli soldier killed in the area since the Gaza war in 2014.
Since the announcement of the ceasefire, the region has experienced a a decrease in the number of kites or incendiary balloons thrown from the Gaza Strip to southern Israel
In recent weeks, the Israeli authorities have reported about 20 fires a day and nearly 3,000 hectares burned since March 30 by homemade incendiary devices launched from the Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday, Israel partially reopened the Kerem Shalom terminal, through which goods destined for the Gaza Strip, which it closed on July 9 in response to the fires,
At least 153 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning, on March 30, protests against the Israeli blockade that has lasted for over 10 years and to claim the right of return of Palestinians who have fled or were driven from their lands to the creation of Israel in 1948.
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