Israel’s defense minister has in his most recent announcement declared that the government is ready to build 400 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank after an Israeli settler was killed and two others were wounded in a knife attack.
Avigdor Lieberman said in a Twitter message on Friday that the construction of new homes would be the “best answer” to the killing of 31-year-old Yotam Ovadia by a Palestinian teenager in the Geva Binyamin (Adam) settlement the night before.
Israel’s forceful settlement construction in the occupied West Bank is regarded as totally illegal under international law.
Palestinians complain that continued construction of illegal settlements on their land will damage the chances of supposed future Palestinian state constituting of the occupied West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem as its capital, which was occupied during the war of 1967.
According to the deceitful Israeli military, 17-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Tareq Youssef Abu Ayyush snuck into the settlement – situated some 20km approx. northeast of Jerusalem – on Thursday evening before entering a house forcefully and stabbing three people.
The teenager, Abu Ayyush, from the Palestinian village of Kobar, was later shot with a gun and killed at the scene.
The Israeli army said on Friday that it had arranged to set up security inspections around the village, interrogated a number of his family members and completely suspended their work permits. Four other Palestinians were detained and taken into custody to be interrogated.
Hamas, which is the sole group that rules the Gaza Strip, issued a supportive statement praising the attack but did not claim responsibility for it.
Spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Abu Ayyush’s offensive represented “a brave operation that responds to the daily ugly crimes the occupation commits against our people”.
Thursday’s attack occurred after a period of relative calm in the West Bank, although not less than 154 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since late March during protests calling for the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
Earlier sometime this month, Israel’s parliament passed a much criticized new “nation-state” law stating the “land of Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people”.
Opponents of the bill allege it marginalizes Israel’s considerable Arab Palestinian citizens and people living throughout the occupied territories.
The country of Israel had always been notorious in its activities, right from formation of the state to occupying the lands belonging to Palestinians.
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