The attack took place when a “politico-security” meeting was underway in the Jordanian city of Akaba, to discuss an lull in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Two Israelis were killed on Sunday, February 26, in an attack on their car in the north of the West Bank – Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 – on Sunday -, according to a statement from Benyamin Netanyahu and its Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben GVir. His government describes this attack as “Palestinian terrorist attack”, and adds to the text: “Our response to terrorism is to fight it with force and strengthen our roots on our land.”
The attack took place on the main road in Hawara, near Nablus. The Israeli army said that a “terrorist [had] opened fire on an Israeli vehicle” and that soldiers then completed the sector for research operations. The Shomron regional council, which manages the Jewish colonies in this area, identified the two victims as two brothers, Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, inhabitants of the colony of Har Bracha, close to the place of the attack, aged 22 and respectively 22 and 20 years.
In their press release, MM. Netanyahu and Ben Gvir announce that a ministerial committee voted in favor of a “bill opening the possibility for a court to inflict the death penalty on terrorists”.
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The attack occurs when on Sunday opened in Jordan in Jordan, a “politico-security” meeting in the Jordanian city of Akaba, to discuss an lull in the Palestinian territories occupied after several days of violence murderers. In Jordan, this meeting has been the first of its kind for years between Palestinians and Israelis, with regional and international participation to try to put an end to the spiral of violence observed since the beginning of the year, after entry into office , at the end of December 2022, of the government formed by Benyamin Netanyahu (right) with extreme right allies and ultraorthodox Jewish formations.
According to well-informed sources, the Palestinian intelligence chief, Majed Faraj, the head of the Israeli Internal Intelligence Service Shin Beth, Ronen Bar, the coordinator of the US National Security Council for the Middle East, Brett McGurk, as that Jordanian and Egyptian security officials participate in the meeting.
The talks aim to “strengthen confidence” between Israel and the Palestinians, and to achieve loss measures, a manager of the Jordanian government has required anonymity to the France-Presse (AFP). .
“[talks] are part of the intensification of efforts (…) aimed at putting an end to the unilateral [Israeli] measures and a deterioration in security that could feed more violence.”
The Israeli army has multiplied, for almost a year, its operations in the north of the West Bank, the bastion of Palestinian armed groups. Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has cost 62 Palestinians (including members of armed groups and civilians including minors) and 11 civilians (including three minors) and an Israeli policeman as well as ‘To a Ukrainian, according to a statement by AFP made from official Israeli and Palestinian sources.