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| Israel Imposes Travel Restrictions on Palestinians After Tel Aviv Attack | Israel Imposes Travel Restrictions on Palestinians After Tel Aviv Attack |
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| TEL AVIV — Israel suspended thousands of travel permits to Israel for Palestinians, sent two battalions of soldiers to the West Bank and blockaded a town there on Thursday, a day after gunmen killed four people in a crowded restaurant district of Tel Aviv. | TEL AVIV — Israel suspended thousands of travel permits to Israel for Palestinians, sent two battalions of soldiers to the West Bank and blockaded a town there on Thursday, a day after gunmen killed four people in a crowded restaurant district of Tel Aviv. |
| The assault on a cafe in the Sarona shopping complex on Wednesday, just as a nine-month wave of stabbing and shooting attacks appeared to have ebbed, was particularly brazen as it was very close to Israel’s military headquarters. | The assault on a cafe in the Sarona shopping complex on Wednesday, just as a nine-month wave of stabbing and shooting attacks appeared to have ebbed, was particularly brazen as it was very close to Israel’s military headquarters. |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack “coldblooded murder by atrocious terrorists,” and he praised a security guard and a police officer who had helped to apprehend the gunmen. The assailants, identified as two Palestinian cousins, are in custody. | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack “coldblooded murder by atrocious terrorists,” and he praised a security guard and a police officer who had helped to apprehend the gunmen. The assailants, identified as two Palestinian cousins, are in custody. |
| “We will take a series of offensive and defensive steps, we will locate anyone who cooperated with this attack, and we will act firmly and intelligently to fight terrorism,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a statement. | “We will take a series of offensive and defensive steps, we will locate anyone who cooperated with this attack, and we will act firmly and intelligently to fight terrorism,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a statement. |
| Avigdor Lieberman, a hard-liner who was recently appointed defense minister, traveled to the scene of the shooting and had coffee at a cafe in a display of resolve, before joining other members of the country’s security cabinet to discuss the situation. | Avigdor Lieberman, a hard-liner who was recently appointed defense minister, traveled to the scene of the shooting and had coffee at a cafe in a display of resolve, before joining other members of the country’s security cabinet to discuss the situation. |
| “I come here first and foremost to salute the people of Tel Aviv, who have absorbed a difficult incident again, a harsh terrorist attack,” he told reporters. “Despite this, they know how to return to life and prove that life is stronger than terror.” | “I come here first and foremost to salute the people of Tel Aviv, who have absorbed a difficult incident again, a harsh terrorist attack,” he told reporters. “Despite this, they know how to return to life and prove that life is stronger than terror.” |
| He said he would not give details on the steps that would be taken, but added, “I have no intention of sufficing with talk.” | He said he would not give details on the steps that would be taken, but added, “I have no intention of sufficing with talk.” |
| The Israeli military said it was sending hundreds of troops from two battalions, drawn from infantry and special forces units, to Yatta, the town where the authorities said the gunmen lived. | The Israeli military said it was sending hundreds of troops from two battalions, drawn from infantry and special forces units, to Yatta, the town where the authorities said the gunmen lived. |
| Yatta, at the southern end of the West Bank, between Hebron and the Israeli barrier that separates the West Bank from nearby Israeli cities like Beersheba, was surrounded by troops, with all movements in and out of the town blocked except for humanitarian and medical reasons. | |
| The town is relatively easy to cut off from the rest of the West Bank because it is far south of most major Palestinian population centers. Israel said that it had also frozen 83,000 special permits that had been issued to West Bank Palestinians for family visits to Israel during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and that it had suspended the travel of Palestinians to Jerusalem from Gaza for prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound. | The town is relatively easy to cut off from the rest of the West Bank because it is far south of most major Palestinian population centers. Israel said that it had also frozen 83,000 special permits that had been issued to West Bank Palestinians for family visits to Israel during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and that it had suspended the travel of Palestinians to Jerusalem from Gaza for prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound. |
| Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, released a statement on Twitter calling the Tel Aviv attack “a natural response to the occupation and desecration of Al Aqsa Mosque” and a sign of “the failure of the occupation” of Palestinian territories. | Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, released a statement on Twitter calling the Tel Aviv attack “a natural response to the occupation and desecration of Al Aqsa Mosque” and a sign of “the failure of the occupation” of Palestinian territories. |
| Such language is typical of the group’s rhetoric, and Hamas did not claim responsibility for the attack. | Such language is typical of the group’s rhetoric, and Hamas did not claim responsibility for the attack. |
| The four victims of the shooting were identified on Thursday as Ido Ben Ari, 42, whose wife was also wounded in the assault; Ilana Naveh, 39, a mother of four daughters; Michael Feige, 58, a sociologist and anthropologist at Ben-Gurion University; and Mila Mishayev, a woman in her early 30s who friends said was engaged to be married. Several other people were hospitalized with injuries. | The four victims of the shooting were identified on Thursday as Ido Ben Ari, 42, whose wife was also wounded in the assault; Ilana Naveh, 39, a mother of four daughters; Michael Feige, 58, a sociologist and anthropologist at Ben-Gurion University; and Mila Mishayev, a woman in her early 30s who friends said was engaged to be married. Several other people were hospitalized with injuries. |
| Dr. Feige was a noted scholar of Israeli society, collective memory and political myth, according to Ben-Gurion University, which issued a statement after his death. His book “Settling in the Hearts: Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories” won a prize from the Association for Israel Studies in 2010. | Dr. Feige was a noted scholar of Israeli society, collective memory and political myth, according to Ben-Gurion University, which issued a statement after his death. His book “Settling in the Hearts: Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories” won a prize from the Association for Israel Studies in 2010. |
| Oren Yiftachel, head of the department of interdisciplinary studies at the university, said Dr. Feige “was one of those who was head and shoulders above the crowd.” | Oren Yiftachel, head of the department of interdisciplinary studies at the university, said Dr. Feige “was one of those who was head and shoulders above the crowd.” |
| “He was not political, despite researching political subjects,” he added. | “He was not political, despite researching political subjects,” he added. |
| Adi Portugez, a friend, told the news site Ynet that Dr. Feige was “simply a man of peace,” while a former student, Devora Ginsburg, praised him as “good-hearted and modest.” | Adi Portugez, a friend, told the news site Ynet that Dr. Feige was “simply a man of peace,” while a former student, Devora Ginsburg, praised him as “good-hearted and modest.” |