Israeli-Palestinian battle doesn't end at death

Ruqayya's father arrived at the scene searching for his daughter to find her dead on the ground.

On Sunday a Palestinian teenager entered the southern West Bank settlement of Otniel and stabbed to death Dafna Meir, a 38-year-old nurse and mother of six, at her home. He said the girl's family lives in Anata but is originally from the city of Yatta south of Hebron, Ma'an News Agency reported.

About 80 settlers were removed from Hebron on Friday a day after Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon withheld his required approval of their occupancy in apartments in a city where tensions between Israelis and Palestinians run high.

Police arrested the activist, Ezra Nawi, last week after the respected Israeli investigative program "Uvda" aired hidden-camera footage of him saying that he has turned over Arab land dealers to Palestinian authorities, knowing they could be killed or tortured.

Israel occupied the West Bank during the 1967 Mideast War and has been controlling it ever since in a move condemned by the worldwide community.

While "security measures" have been eased over the past month according to documentation by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, many closures and restrictions on movement remain in place, particularly in the Hebron district.

Netanyahu said that if the process of checking the two houses in Hebron in the West Bank is not completed within a week, he will make sure the Cabinet receives a status report.

Initial investigations suggested the teenager "had fought with her family and left her home with a knife and intending to die", she added. In that case, relatives said the cousins had set out after watching video clips leaked from the interrogation of a 13-year-old Palestinian who was accused of participating in the stabbing of a 13-year-old Jewish boy and another Israeli civilian in East Jerusalem the month before.

Hagit Ofran of Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement group, said the Palestinian owners are denying any purchase and are going to file legal documents to prove it. "Previous experience shows that some of these alleged deals are either forged, or only partial and then proven false", she said.

Tahseen Elayyan, a researcher at Al-Haq, said that incidents in which private security guards use violence against Palestinians are not uncommon.

Smotrich said, "I welcome Netanyahu's decision to enable the residents of the home to return, but I won't vote with coalition until they are back in the home that they legally purchased".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed her remarks as "stupid" and "immoral", but Frej said she had a valid point.