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Route 60 was a central scene of violence during the al-Aqsa Intifada, which was in part defined by the thousands of shooting attacks on its Israeli traffic, including hundreds of casualties. [ citation needed ] The Israeli Army , in response, has fortified various sections with anti-sniper walls and had established checkpoints along the route.
On 20 June 2003, the Goldsteins, an Israeli family of four, were in a car on Route 60 in the West Bank headed towards Jerusalem when two Hamas members waiting in ambush on the roadside opened fire with AK-47s, hitting all four occupants. With the driver, Tzvi Goldstein, injured, the front passenger and father of the driver took the steering ...
The modern Highway 60 (Israel-Palestine) follows roughly the route of the Way of the Patriarchs. [2] [3] The name is used by biblical scholars because of mentions in biblical narratives that it was frequently travelled by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. [4] It is also called the Hill Road or the Ridge Route [2] because it follows the watershed ridge ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, United States President George W. Bush, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after reading statement to the press during the closing moments of the Red Sea Summit in Aqaba, Jordan, 4 June 2003. The roadmap for peace or road map for peace was a plan to ...
The 2023 Tunnels Checkpoint shooting was a shooting attack that occurred on November 16, 2023, at the Tunnels Checkpoint on Highway 60, near Jerusalem.The attack was carried by three Palestinian militants who opened fire at Israeli security forces and civilians, resulting in the death of one Israeli soldier and the injury of five additional People. [1]
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
In August 2015, a gas station was firebombed on Route 60 near Eli. Later, two Palestinian from Awarta, members of PFLP, claimed the attack was a retaliation for the firebombing at Duma. [17] [18] In August 2024, the nearby Palestinian town of Jit suffered an attack from Israeli settlers. [19]
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in exchange, in the latest ...