it last spring, the spring of last year, a series of palestinian attacks against israelis and around the same time, israeli forces carrying out nightly raids into palestinian cities in occupied west bank, many of them ending up with large numbers of palestinian fatalities. we saw last year the death toll in the region, both among palestinians and israelis unmatched in many years, much higher numbers of palestinians being killed. into this year, further violence, those raids continuing, palestinian attacks also continuing and we have had an upswing in confrontations around the gaza strip saw last week for example, a five day campaign of air strikes by israel to kill senior leaders of palestinian islamichhad and militants in gaza firing rockets into israel. this has been the context and that is why internationally it has been a huge amount of pressure for moments like this to not make things worse. we
saying earlier on when we saw palestinians breaking into chance of death to arabs and other racist slogans are not of course was igniting a lot of tension, anger and frustrations palestinian say they saw people breaking into those chants. police say they won t accept any lawbreaking but what we have seen repeatedly over the years as palestinians certainly feel not enough is being done to stop what goes on and the atmosphere still pretty volatile here. we are also expecting far right policing minister it a bank averse to appear at some point which again will with publication of the plaintiff friction policing minister mcphee. and see this event happening in the context of serious tensions and paint the context of what those are. over the last year tensions
as we have seen time and again, this saves lives. on the streets ofjerusalem tonight, emotions are running high. israelis blocked cars in palestinian neighbourhoods, here shouting arabs, beware hebrew blood isn t cheap . tensions had risen sharply after the deadliest israeli military raid in the occupied west bank in years. on thursday, nine palestinians, including two civilians, were killed. the israeli armed forces say they were acting on intelligence to prevent islamicjihad fighters carrying out major attacks. in response, palestinian militants fired rockets from the gaza strip. in recent months, amid rising violence, there have been repeated international calls for calm here but they ve had little impact. and now, once again, fears are growing of wider unrest. yolande knell,
just 13 opened fire, hitting an israeli father and son. now the israeli prime minister is promising strong action. translation: | will submit - to the security council additional steps in the fight against terrorism. this includes significantly hastening and expediting the licensing of weapons for authorised civilians. and we have seen time and again, this saves lives. 0n the streets ofjerusalem overnight, emotions were running high. israelis blocked cars in palestinian neighbourhoods, here shouting arabs beware hebrew blood isn t cheap . tensions had risen sharply after the deadliest israeli military raid in the west bank in years. on thursday, nine palestinians, including two civilians, were killed. israeli armed forces say they were acting on intelligence to prevent islamichhad fighters carrying out major attacks. in response, palestinian militants fired rockets from the gaza strip. in recent months, amid rising violence, there have been repeated international calls for calm here
high. israelis blocked cars in palestinian neighbourhoods, here shouting arabs, beware hebrew blood isn t cheap . tensions had risen sharply after the deadliest israeli military raid in the occupied west bank in years. on thursday, nine palestinians, including two civilians, were killed. the israeli armed forces say they were acting on intelligence to prevent islamicjihad fighters carrying out major attacks. in response, palestinian militants fired rockets from the gaza strip. in recent months, amid rising violence, there have been repeated international calls for calm here but they ve had little impact. and now, once again, fears are growing of wider unrest. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. aaron david miller is a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace, and told us about the current level of tension.