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Wednesday 5 November 2014
Palestinian drives car into Israeli soldiers
Three soldiers wounded after vehicle rams into
them in West Bank, hours after a similar attack in
Jerusalem killed one.
Israeli police say three soldiers have been
wounded, one of them seriously, after a
Palestinian drove his car into them on a road near
Hebron in the West Bank.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the driver
of the "large commercial vehicle" bearing a
Palestinian license plate fled the scene.
The incident came hours after one Israeli was
killed and 14 others injured in another similar
attack in Jerusalem.
"After the car came to a halt, the driver, who was
wounded, got out of the vehicle and started to hit
people with an iron bar," the police spokeswoman
said about the first attack. He was shot by police
who were in the area at the time, she said.
Police described the incident as a "hit-and-run
terror attack" and said it took place in the same
area as a similar attack two weeks ago, in which a
Palestinian man rammed a car into a crowd killing
a woman and a baby.
Wednesday's incidents came amid continued
tensions over right-wing Jewish demands to be
able to pray inside the compound and the
expansion of Israeli settlement building in East
Jerusalem.
Series of confrontations
In Jerusalem, Israeli security officers clashed with
Palestinian protesters after far-right Israelis tried
to storm the al-Aqsa mosque in the first of a
series of confrontations.
"There is still a lot of tension and a huge police
presence here," Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab reported
from Jerusalem.
Israeli security forces briefly entered the al-Aqsa
compound as clashes broke out between
Palestinian protesters and far-right Israelis trying
to enter the compound.
"In a rare move, we understand that Israeli
security forces entered the mosque at al-Aqsa,"
our correspondent said.
Israeli police told Al Jazeera that they had only
entered briefly to close the door, but our
correspondent said the move was likely to
heighten tensions in the Israeli-occupied East
Jerusalem.
"These provocations, as it's seen by Palestinians
at the al-Aqsa mosque, will certainly not do
anything to calm the situation."
Israeli police said protesters threw stones and
firecrackers at police officers minutes before the
mosque compound opened.
"Police entered the area, pushed the masked
rioters back, and they fled back into al-Aqsa.
Police closed the front gate of the mosque but did
not enter," Micky Rosenfeld, Israeli police
spokesman, said.
Daily clashes between Israeli security forces and
Palestinians in the streets of East Jerusalem and
the Old City compound have stoked fears of a
new Palestinian Intifada, or uprising.
The al-Aqsa mosque is managed by Jordan as part
of a 20-year-old peace deal.
On Tuesday, Jordan recalled its ambassador in
protest at what it calls "unprecedented Israeli
escalation" in Jerusalem, Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-
Shamayleh, who is in Amman, reported.
She also said that Jordan was filing a formal
complaint against Israel before the UN Security
Council on the al-Aqsa incident.
Al Jazeera's Tyab said the Israeli action, including
the use of stun grenades to disperse the crowd,
amounted to "a crackdown in occupied East
Jerusalem".
Omar Alkeswani, a Palestinian manager of al-
Aqsa, said police entered the compound and that
20 people were wounded in the clashes.
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