Al-Jazeera: 16 Israelis have been killed in operations in recent weeks.
Al-Jazeera reported, quoting Israeli radio and television, that 16 occupiers had been killed in cold steel attacks and shootings since the beginning of March.
“Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have risen sharply in recent weeks following repeated attacks on Israeli cities that have left 15 dead,” the Times of Israel reported.
“Sixteen Israelis have been killed in cold steel attacks and shootings since the beginning of March,” Al Jazeera quoted radio and television as saying.
At the same time, the police of the interim Zionist regime claimed in a statement that one of the Arabs living in occupied Palestine, who had stolen a vehicle, had taken over an officer and that he was in critical condition. (More details)
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a rally in the northern West Bank town of Ariel.
The developments come as the Israeli army announced on Thursday morning that six battalions of reserve forces had been called in to replace normal forces along the retaining wall and the West Bank contact line.
According to the military spokesman of the Israeli army, this decision was taken after the assessment of “Aviv Kokhawi”, the chief of the joint staff of the Israeli army, from the current situation, and the mentioned forces were present in the mentioned areas for at least three weeks.