Teen Stabbed At Gay Pride Parade Dies
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A teenager stabbed by an Orthodox Jew at an Israeli gay pride parade has died.
Shira Banki, 16, was among six people stabbed at the Jerusalem march on Thursday by a suspect identified as an ultra-Orthodox Jew released from prison only weeks earlier for a similar attack.
The five other victims suffered various degrees of injuries.
On Friday morning, hours after the march, assailants suspected of being Jewish settlers firebombed a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank, killing an 18-month-old toddler.
The separate attacks have put a spotlight on Jewish extremists, while the firebombing further inflamed tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, with clashes breaking out in various cities.
On Sunday morning, Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, though calm was later restored.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned both attacks and called the firebombing “terrorism” — a word usually used by Israelis to refer to violence by Palestinians. On Sunday, he spoke of “zero tolerance” for such acts.
But many have accused his government of failing to address the problem of Jewish extremism and of going dangerously far in its support for right-wing settler groups.
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