In Tel Aviv and the West Bank on Thursday, five people were killed in two stabbing and shooting attacks carried out by Palestinians, Israeli authorities said. According to the New York Times, three Israelis, an 18-year-old American yeshiva student, and a Palestinian were killed.
While covering a protest in the West Bank on Friday, a pair of Agence France-Presse journalists were beaten by Israeli troops, the Associated Press reports. The “unprovoked attack” was caught on video. The Israeli military said Saturday the soldiers will face “disciplinary measures.”
[A Palestinian woman reads from the Qu'ran in Nablus, the West Bank, on Sunday. Ramadan, the Islamic holy month, began a little more than a week ago and ends in early September. Pic via AP.]
Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky was denied entry to Israel and the West Bank on Sunday, seemingly due to his criticism of Israeli policies. But who knows? It could just be that the IDF doesn't believe in generative grammar. [Haaretz]
