Yesterday marked six months of the sustained wave of terror in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Since 13th September 2015, the eve of Rosh Hashanah and the day Israeli police raided Al-Aqsa mosque armed with rubber bullets and stun grenades, a heightened level of violence has gripped the region, from Tel Aviv to Ramallah. The bloody period has been dubbed the ‘knife intifada’ due to the regular, at times more than daily, occurrence of attacks. 34 people killed by Palestinians Based on the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) figures from March 9 and Ma’an News Agency reports from March 9 to March 13, Palestinian attackers have killed 34 people and injured 394 people, 4 of whom were Palestinians themselves. To date, there have been 203 stabbings and attempted stabbing attacks, 82 shootings and 41 vehicle rammings. Attacks aren’t limited to these three types. According to IDF figures, in October 2015 alone there were 817 violent protests, 851 stone-throwing incidents and 337 petrol bomb throwing incidents. The military wing of Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) is quoted as describing the attacks as a “natural reaction to the ongoing crimes Israeli forces commit against the Palestinian people in the…
Knife Intifada in Numbers: Dozens Killed, Hundreds Displaced in Palestine, Israel
March 14, 2016
