Palestinian terrorism

It's been nearly a week since news broke about secret talks between Turkish and Israeli officials in a bid to accomplish the normalization process by sealing a long-negotiated deal.

Video footage of Jewish zealots mocking the death by arson of a Palestinian baby has sparked outrage in Israel, even as some on the far right saw in the leak a possible bid to justify tough interrogation of suspects in the killing. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an met with Khaled Mashaal, leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, on Dec. 19 in Istanbul, Turkish presidential sources said, a day after Israel and Turkey said they were close to patching up a five-year political rift. 

Israeli soldiers shot dead a 19-year-old Palestinian as clashes broke out during a raid at a refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Dec. 8, Palestinian medics and the Israeli army said.

After the incident at the Dheisheh refugee camp, clashes also broke out at Aida, another camp in Bethlehem, official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.    

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Nov. 24 described a wave of Palestinian knife and car-ramming attacks as "acts of terrorism" that must be condemned as he held talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on how to end the violence.

Two Palestinians attacked Israelis with knives and a car in the West Bank Nov. 22 and were killed when civilians and security forces intervened, the latest in a nearly two-month wave of violence.

Israeli undercover security forces looking for a wounded suspect who had attack against an Israeli sneaked into the hospital to arrest him.

The agents entered the Hebron hospital where the suspect was being treated early Thursday morning disguised as a Palestinian family bringing a pregnant woman who was about to delivery.

The Israeli military says guards have shot and killed a Palestinian woman who drew a knife as she attempted to attack them at a West Bank checkpoint.

A Palestinian rammed a group of Israelis with a car at a junction in the West Bank on Nov. 8, wounding three of them, and was then killed by security forces, police said.

An Israeli paramilitary policeman shot dead a Palestinian who had stabbed a soldier in the occupied West Bank on Oct. 29, police and the army said, as a month-long spate of attacks showed no signs of abating.