[IsraelTimes] Army says 'a number of battalions' to be deployed, including specialized intelligence units; protesters march in several West Bank cities shuttered by general strike.The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday said it was deploying battalions to the West Bank as reinforcements, as festivities and scuffles broke out across the West Bank and East Jerusalem in anger over US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Paleostinian were fuming over Trump’s Wednesday speech, in which he defied worldwide warnings and insisted that, after repeated failures to achieve peace, a new approach was long overdue. He described his decision as an acknowledgement of reality, as Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s government.
Trump also revealed he had instructed the US State Department to prepare for moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Paleostinians marched in several West Bank cities and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at troops in some places. Scuffles were also reported at the Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem.
In Gazoo, at least two Paleostinians were reported injured by Israeli fire.
Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...on Thursday called for a new Paleostinian intifada, or uprising. The Paleostinian Authority also canceled classes for its West Bank school system for Thursday, in an apparent attempt to get more young Paleostinians to clash with Israeli troops.
In light of a "situational assessment by the IDF General Staff," that army said it "decided that a number of battalions will reinforce the area of [the West Bank], as well as combat intelligence and territorial defense units."
The military would not specify the number of additional battalions being sent in the West Bank as reinforcements.
As of Thursday morning, the army had not called up reserve units, which would have indicated an expectation of greater violence.
On Wednesday, the Israel Police also announced that it would be deploying officers widely throughout the capital, including sites where violence is regularly expected.
"The Israel Police is prepared for an immediate operational response to a wide range of scenarios if necessary," a police spokesperson said.
Outside the Old City of Jerusalem, small demonstrations ‐ nonviolent, as of Thursday afternoon ‐ were taking place between local residents and Border Police troops.
Paleostinian leaders in the Fatah-controlled West Bank responded to Trump’s speech with outrage, declaring that the United States could no longer serve as Middle East peace broker.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...called the change in longstanding US policy "deplorable."
Schools and shops were closed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as Paleostinians protested Trump’s recognition and political groups called for protest marches in West Bank town centers at noon.
Several thousand Paleostinians marched in the Hamas-run Gazoo Strip on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, burning US and Israeli flags and chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."