RAMALLAH: The Israeli military says an Israeli was killed and three others were wounded after a Palestinian opened fire at a family car traveling in the West Bank. It says the wounded were evacuated to hospital and that troops are searching for the Palestinian gunman who fled the scene.
The attack took place on a road south of Hebron. Hours earlier in the volatile West Bank City, police said a Palestinian woman was shot and killed by police after she pulled out a knife and threatened an officer.
Meanwhile, the Middle East peace “Quartet” recommended on Friday in a an eagerly awaited report that Israel should stop building settlements, denying Palestinian development and designating land for exclusive Israeli use that Palestinians seek for a future state.
The report by the Quartet entities sponsoring the stalled peace process — the US, Russia, the EU and the UN — said the Israeli policy “is steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution.”
“This raises legitimate questions about Israel’s long-term intentions, which are compounded by the statements of some Israeli ministers that there should never be a Palestinian state,” according to the report.
The Quartet report said Israel had taken for its exclusive use some 70 percent of Area C, which makes up 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and includes the majority of agricultural lands, natural resources and land reserves.
“The transfer of greater powers and responsibilities to Palestinian civil authority in Area C, contemplated by commitments in prior agreements, has effectively been stopped and in some ways reversed and should be resumed to advance the two state solution and prevent a one state reality from taking hold,” the report said.
Resistance against occupation continues
Resistance against occupation continues
