What's driving Palestinian attacks? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Shlomi Eldar

Shlomi Eldar

Oct 13, 2016

Israeli riot policemen secure the area following a shooting incident in what an Israeli police spokesperson described as a terrorist attack, in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem October 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RTSRF90 — Israeli riot policemen secure the area following a shooting incident in what an Israeli police representative described as a terrorist attack, in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, Oct. 9, 2016. — REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

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Palestinians are silhouetted as they walk in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, before the start of morning prayers marking the first day of Eid al-Adha celebrations, early morning September 12, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RTSNCVX

Tension rises on Temple Mount during Jewish holy days

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Members of the Israeli Zaka emergency response team work at the scene of a stabbing in Tel Aviv November 10, 2014. A Palestinian stabbed and critically an Israeli soldier near a Tel Aviv train station on Monday, police said, as anti-Israel violence that has raised fears of a new Palestinian uprising in the making reached the country's business capital. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR4DJZA

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In Ramallah, reporting on politics

Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the The Islamic Movement northern branch in Israel poses for a photo after Israel outlawed the Movement today in Nazareth, November 17, 2015. Israel on Tuesday outlawed an Islamist group it says has played a central role in stirring up violence over a Jerusalem holy site in a wave of bloodshed that began seven weeks ago. The decision by Israel's security cabinet, accompanied by police raids on the offices of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, were some of the strongest acti

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The Dome of the Rock is seen in the background as Palestinians pray on the third Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in the Arab east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ras al-Amud July 18, 2014. An Israeli police spokesman said on Friday that police allowed only Palestinian men over the age of 50 to enter a compound which houses Al-Aqsa mosque and is known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City. He added that seven people were detained on suspicion of throwing stones at p

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