Palestinian Teenagers Killed by Israeli Police

Palestinian Teenagers Shot by Israeli Police http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-police-kill-palestinian-man-for-allegedly-attempting-to-stab-an-officer-1444638536

Two Palestinian Teenagers were killed and another two were injured by Israeli police officers. This occured over the course of a few event yesterday. These teenagers were attacking police officers and civilians with knives. When police officers have been attacked there assailant failed due to the body armor the officers were wearing. The civilians however were not wearing body armor but police near by were able to protect them from the attackers, killing one. There have 31 people killed during these recent outbreak in Jerusalem, most of them being Palestinians. The Prime Minister of Israeli is calling for a 1,000 more officers from around the country in to help protect and bring order in Jerusalem.

These outbreaks of violence seem completely uncalled for, I understand that Palestinians and Israelians have a long history of violence between each other but what good does it do? All it does is help the animosity between the two of them to continue to grow. This clearly isn't a situation that will be fixed anytime soon. It doesn't help much that the main people assulting the Israelians right now are teenagers, these kids are acting on their own accord, there isn't a ring leader telling them what to do. That also means though this outbreak is not linked to a terror group or other organization like that.

Alex Benson