JERUSALEM: An Israeli soldier died yesterday after a Palestinian youth stabbed him on board a bus in the north of the country, police said.
“The Israeli soldier who was stabbed this morning by a Palestinian on a bus at the Afula bus station has died of his wounds in hospital,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
The soldier, identified as 19-year-old Eden Atias, was stabbed on a bus that had just arrived in the northern Israeli city, and was taken to an intensive care unit. The 16-year-old Palestinian from near Jenin in the northern West Bank, who was in Israel without permits, was detained by passengers and security forces on the bus, he said.
The assailant, identified in Palestinian media as Hussein Ghawdra, told security forces investigating his motive that two family members were imprisoned in Israel, police said.
Policeman hurt in petrol bomb attack
DUBAI: A petrol bomb hurled at a Bahrain police patrol yesterday left one policeman wounded, the interior ministry said. A “terrorist group” targeted the patrol in the suburb of Juffair, the ministry said, using a term usually employed to refer to Shia youths who frequently clash with security forces.
“The terrorist group also burned a motorcycle that belonged to a restaurant, and vandalised a car parked in the area,” the ministry said in a statement.
Attacks on police have become frequent in the Sunni-ruled Gulf monarchy that has a Shiite majority, while protesters frequently clash with security forces in Shiite villages.
On Sunday, a Bahraini court jailed for life two Shiites convicted of blowing up a car outside a Sunni mosque in a July attack that left no casualties. A Shia-led uprising to demand a democratic reforms was crushed in March 2011. At least 89 people have been killed since the protests began, according to the International Federation for Human Rights.
Hamas torturing prisoners: NGO
GAZA CITY: Hamas has arrested and tortured dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks on political grounds, a Palestinian rights group said yesterday.
The Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights condemned the “arrest campaign launched by the Internal Security Service of Hamas against dozens of persons, including members of Fatah party and children.”
It said arrests had been stepped up to coincide with calls for demonstrations against Hamas on the anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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