Argentines Protest against Netanyahu Visit

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP)
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Argentines Protest against Netanyahu Visit

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP)

Dozens of people protested in Argentina on Monday against the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Latin American country.

Condemning his policy against Palestinians, the protesters compared the Israeli leader to Adolf Hitler.

Israeli media said that Netanyahu headed on his South American tour to escape corruption accusations back home, while the premier deemed the trip as “historic.”

He had arrived in Argentina on Monday as part of a tour of Latin America that sees him visit Colombia and Mexico. He will conclude it in New York where he is set to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

Activists welcomed Netanyahu in Argentina with protests, putting up posters throughout Buenos Aires depicting him as Hitler and dressed up in Nazi uniform. Other posters accused him of committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.

Some held up banners accusing him of committing crimes against humanity and of murdering the Palestinian people. Another banner called for expelling Zionism from Palestine.

The protests prompted the police to intervene to prevent any clashes and tensions.

Netanyahu said that his tour of Latin America is aimed at bolstering economic, security and technological ties between it and Israel.



Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Man in West Bank

A picture taken in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah city shows the nearby Israeli Shilo settlement in the background, in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
A picture taken in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah city shows the nearby Israeli Shilo settlement in the background, in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
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Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Man in West Bank

A picture taken in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah city shows the nearby Israeli Shilo settlement in the background, in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
A picture taken in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah city shows the nearby Israeli Shilo settlement in the background, in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian authorities said Israeli troops killed a 55-year-old man in the north of the occupied West Bank on Thursday -- an incident the Israeli army said involved a stabbing attack.

The Ramallah-based health ministry said the body in charge of coordination with Israel informed it that soldiers "shot and killed" the man in Rummanah, near Jenin, in the morning.

The Israeli military said separately that troops deployed in the village "neutralised" a man after he stabbed and "moderately injured" a soldier, AFP reported.

The army generally uses the term "neutralised" after killing someone.

Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has soared since the Hamas attack of October 2023.

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy died Thursday of wounds suffered during an army raid near the West Bank town of Nablus last week, the health ministry said.

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 951 Palestinians, including many militants, the ministry said.

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Over the same period, at least 35 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations, according to Israeli figures.