During anti-Israeli riots, a Palestinian mob attempted to set fire to Joseph’s tomb in Nablus in the West Bank. The Palestinian security forces dispersed the mob and brought the fire under control before the Israeli Defense forces arrived. The rioting is the latest example of a wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians that has been going for several weeks.
The Jerusalem Post reports that the latest violence comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu puts pressure on Palestinian leaders to curb incitement.
On Thursday night Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to stop inciting Palestinians to attack Israelis with knives and axes, in a press conference given in Jerusalem.
“Abu Mazen [Abbas] is inciting murder,” Netanyahu charged as he called on the international community to stop excusing the Palestinian leader’s actions.
The violence is the direct result of false Palestinian charges that Israel is attempting to take over the Temple Mount and is executing Palestinians, Netanyahu said at the press event designed to present Israel’s case to the world.
He spoke just one day after Abbas delivered a speech on both points and then claimed that Israel had killed Ahmed Manasra, 13. The young teen along with his 15-year old cousin had stabbed a 13-year old Israeli in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood on Tuesday.
The violence has seen Palestinians attacking Israelis with knives and axes. There have also been revenge attacks by Israelis on Arabs and clashes between the Israeli military and Palestinians.
Many of the Palestinians attacking Israelis are young men who were only children during the Second Intifada. It has been speculated that those young men have no memory of the heavy Palestinian losses in that conflict so they’re not deterred from attacking Israelis. That Israeli-Palestinian conflict came to an end in 2005 after nearly 4400 died on both sides over a five year period.
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