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East Jerusalem quiets after hours of riots as police brace for more clashes

2022-10-13

[IsraelTimes] Fresh arrests as fighting spreads beyond Shuafat refugee camp; bigwig says Jerusalem situation ’liable to get out of hand’

A tenuous calm appeared to return to East Jerusalem on Thursday morning after hours of festivities in Paleostinian neighborhoods throughout the city, with Israeli security forces gearing up for the possibility of more fighting in the coming days.

Paleostinian protesters hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails, launched fireworks and set tires and garbage dumpsters on fire in several neighborhoods through Wednesday night and into the early hours of Thursday, as riots over the closure of the Paleostinian refugee camp of Shuafat spread to other areas of the cities, sparking some of the heaviest fighting seen there in over a year. Police have been searching Shuafat for the suspected gunman behind a shooting attack at a nearby checkpoint Saturday night that left a soldier dead and another guard hospitalized at death's door.

Police are expected to bolster force numbers throughout the capital in the coming days, the Kan public broadcaster reported. Four Border Police reserves units are on notice of potential call-up to help secure the city, according to Haaretz. A decision on whether to deploy the units was expected to be made later Thursday morning, the report said.

"This is not Guardian of the Walls 2, but the situation in Jerusalem is liable to get out of hand," a senior security source told Kan, referring to the conflict between Israel and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
terror groups last May and its accompanying violence between Jews and Arabs in Israel.

Police said two officers were lightly injured by shrapnel from suspected improvised explosives in the neighborhood of Issawiya. Footage from the neighborhood later in the night showed an army jeep that appeared to have caught fire.

Officials said Thursday morning that 23 people were tossed into the calaboose in connection with the rioting in Jerusalem over the past days, with nine detained in raids on their homes in Issawiya on suspicion of involvement in the violence.

All through the night, the booms of fireworks and sound grenades echoed through parts of the capital, with festivities reported in neighborhoods throughout East Jerusalem. In Sheikh Jarrah there were reports of fighting between Jews and Arabs, both groups apparently armed with rocks. There were also reports of violence in Silwan, Kafr Aqab and A-Tur.

The violence came amid rising unrest in the capital and the West Bank, where sporadic festivities were also reported Wednesday night.

Earlier on Wednesday, a Paleostinian teenager was rubbed out by Israeli forces during festivities with troops near Hebron, and on Tuesday, an Israeli soldier was killed in a shooting near Nablus while securing a settler march.

Israeli troops reportedly came under fire in Nablus again early Thursday as they escorted a small group of Jewish pilgrims to Joseph’s Tomb in the city. The Jewish worshipers, including Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, reportedly arrived in armored personnel carriers, a change from previous visits in armored buses escorted by the military. There was no immediate comment from the IDF on the visit or possible injuries.

There have been several days of rioting in Shuafat, where Israeli forces have imposed a closure since Saturday night following the shooting attack at the nearby checkpoint. The rioting came as Jewish Israelis were celebrating the Sukkot holiday, which generally draws thousands of visitors to Jerusalem and its Old City, often raising tensions with Paleostinian residents.

In Beit Hanina, stone-throwers broke the windows of a car carrying a Jewish family, forcing them to flee the area. The father of the family told the Ynet news site that they had been on their way to visit Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem when he made a wrong turn and was instead set upon by an angry mob. On Thursday morning, he told the Kan public broadcaster that he believed he and his family were lucky to escape.

"They threw a stone that we only saw later had landed near the child’s feet, but miraculously nothing happened. The window next to the child was smashed and [rioters] tried to punch her," said the man, named only as Yaakov by the network.

Police said Thursday that two people have been arrested in connection with that attack.

Video from Ras al-Amud showed a hail of fireworks, reportedly directed at apartments owned by Jewish families who have settled in the area. A car carrying Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, on his way to a complex of Jewish-owned apartments abutting the neighborhood for a Sukkot celebration, was reportedly pelted with stones. Other footage showed a man in Jewish garb fleeing as fireworks explode on the ground all around him, and a video showed what appeared to be a police jeep surrounded by flames.

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev said police and Border Police were working to get the unrest under control.

"We have no intention of allowing this violence to continue and we are determined to act harshly against anyone who disturbs the peace and endangers residents or police," he said in a statement after meeting with police commissioner Kobi Shabtai and top Jerusalem cop Doron Turgeman.

Earlier:

An 18-year-old Paleostinian was killed by Israeli gunfire near the al-Aroub refugee camp on Wednesday, Paleostinian and Israeli officials said, as tensions spiked across the West Bank. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, the young man, identified by Paleostinian media as Osama Mahmoud Adawi, was shot amid festivities with Israeli troops. The Israel Defense Forces said Adawi was hurling stones at Israeli cars. According to the IDF, several masked men threw rocks at cars driving on Route 60, the West Bank’s main north-south highway, near the refugee camp north of the Paleostinian city of Hebron.

"The IDF responded by shooting at them," the military said in a statement, adding that a "hit was identified."

The festivities came at a time of rising violence in the West Bank, where two soldiers were killed in shooting attacks on Saturday and Tuesday, one near Jerusalem and the second near Nablus.

On Wednesday evening, police said Paleostinian button men shot up a Border Police position at the Qalandia crossing near Jerusalem, without causing any injuries. The troops stationed in the area returned fire and were searching for the suspects who fired from the nearby town, according to police. There were no immediate reports of Paleostinian injuries in the exchange of fire.

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday morning imposed a closure on Nablus following the Tuesday attack that killed Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch, as troops continued to search for the alleged gunman, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.

Police forces also clashed with Paleostinians in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem for the fourth day in a row, during searches for Udai Tamimi,

Oh lord, not another member of the troublesome al-Tamimi clan originally from the village of Nabi Salih — near Ramallah in the West Bank — that has for several generations waged war, both kinetic and propaganda as opportunity and individual temperament require, against Israel’s Jews. Members happily join the armed wings of Hamas, Fatah, the PLO — whichever group is nearest when they are ready to commence the family activities. Others go in for “political activism”...

allegedly the gunman who shot Sgt. Noa Lazar to death at a nearby checkpoint on Saturday.

In recent months, Paleostinian button men have repeatedly attacked military posts, troops operating along the West Bank security barrier, Israeli settlements and civilians on the roads.

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