Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, May 10, 2016.
Two Israeli women stabbed in Jerusalem and troops demolish a Palestinian home in the West Bank. these stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.
Israeli sources have reported, Tuesday, that two elderly Israeli women were injured in a park, in Jabal al-Mokabber Palestinian town, in occupied Jerusalem, after being stabbed by two masked young men who managed to escape before the soldiers installed many roadblocks and pushed more units.
Israeli sources said the two women, in their seventies and eighties, were stabbed in Armon Hanatziv colony, and that the two went for a walk, along with three other adults, before being attacked by two masked men.
The soldiers arrested a young Palestinian man, suspected of attacking the women, while other sources said he allegedly “carried scissors, and attempted to attack young Israeli women, near Jabal al-Mokabber, the Israeli sources added.
Palestinian sources said that a large Israeli military force closed many roads in Jabal al-Mokabber, and took the detained Palestinian to an interrogation center, allegedly for involvement in the stabbing attack in Armon Hanatziv colony, illegally built on Palestinian lands.
In other news, Several Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday at dawn the al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and demolished an under construction home.
Local sources said the soldiers demolished the under construction home, belonging to Hassan Nasr Abu at-Teen, in Ein Jweiza area, north of the village. The army claims the property was being built without a construction permits.
Earlier on Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and on Tuesday at dawn, at least fourteen Palestinians, including several children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Tuesday, May 10, 2016, news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. From more news and updates, please visit our website at www.imemc.org Today’s report has been brought to you by George Rishmawi and me Ghassan Bannoura.
