The Israeli executive announced, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, measures against “families of terrorists” after the two attacks which hit East Jerusalem since Friday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Saturday evening a “strong” and “solid” response to these attacks carried out in the part of the Holy City occupied and annexed by Israel.
Seven civilians, including a couple, a Ukrainian woman and a 14-year-old boy, died Friday evening in one of them, in Neve Yaacov, near a synagogue.
The next morning, a 13-year-old injured two Israelis in Silwan, a stone's throw from the Old City walls.
Neither of these two attacks has been claimed.
A revocation of social rights
At the end of a meeting, in the night, the Israeli security cabinet announced the revocation of the rights to Social Security of “families of terrorists who support terrorism”.
He also stressed that a bill aimed at revoking "Israeli identity cards" for this same category of families would be discussed Monday in the Council of Ministers.
In a tweet, the Israeli Prime Minister also claims that it has been decided that "the house of the terrorist who carried out the terrorist attack in Jerusalem" will be "immediately sealed for demolition".
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"When civilians have weapons, they can defend themselves," said the Minister of Internal Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, a figure on the far right.
In the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, the assailant, armed with a pistol, wounded a father and his soldier son, aged 47 and 23 respectively, according to the police and the rescue services, before being injured by armed passers-by , then stopped.
Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in December with the support of far-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish formations, and these restrictive measures are likely to apply primarily to Palestinians with Israeli nationality (Israeli Arabs, according to the Israeli name ) and Palestinians with East Jerusalem resident status.
The fear of a new Intifada
This new violence comes against the backdrop of a sudden escalation after the death Thursday of nine Palestinians, including fighters and a woman in her 60s, in an Israeli army raid in Jenin, in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. Israeli forces were placed on high alert, and the army has announced that it will be strengthening its troops in the West Bank as calls for restraint have multiplied from abroad.
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Calling the attack a "particularly heinous" crime, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was "deeply concerned about the escalation of violence".
The Palestinian Authority refrained from condemning it and judged that Israel was "entirely responsible for the dangerous escalation".
