• Funeral held for teen killed during fatal attack on Israeli settlement
    Jan. 30, 2016
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770039

    RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Thousands mourned on Friday in the funeral of a 17-year-old Palestinian from the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank who was shot dead while carrying out an attack in the illegal Beit Horon settlement earlier this week.

    Hussein Muhammad Abu Ghush was killed alongside 23-year-old Osama Youssef Allan on Monday after the two stabbed two Israeli women in the settlement, one of whom died shortly after from critical injuries.

    Israeli authorities handed over the bodies of both Palestinians Friday evening after withholding them for four days.

    Abu Ghush’s body was taken in an ambulance from the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to the Qalandiya refugee camp, where residents carried the 17-year-old on their shoulders to his family home.

    Following final farewells bid by relatives, his body was brought to a mosque inside of the camp for funeral prayers before being laid to rest.

    Abu Ghush is among at least nine residents of the Qalandiya refugee camp to be killed since a wave of unrest spread across the occupied Palestinian territory in October.

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    • Wrong Waze: App Leads Israeli Troops to Palestinian Camp Sparking ’Hannibal’ Rescue Operation
      http://www.newsweek.com/waze-app-misleads-idf-soldiers-palestinian-refugee-camp-resulting-deadly-4

      The military activated the controversial “Hannibal Directive,” according to Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, a measure that allows commanders to take necessary action to prevent the abduction of a soldier and the escape of the captors, putting the soldier and surrounding civilians in mortal danger.
      […]
      Spokesperson for Waze, Julie Mossler, told Newsweek that the app has a setting that ensures routes into Palestinian-controlled territories are prevented for Israelis, saying that this feature was not in use by the soldiers.

      The Waze application includes a specific default setting that prevents routes through areas which are marked as dangerous or prohibited for Israelis to drive through,” Mossler says in an email statement. “In this case, the setting was disabled. In addition, the driver deviated from the suggested route and as a result, entered the prohibited area.

      Mossler continues: “Waze has and is continuing to work directly with the relevant authorities to decrease such mishaps from occurring, but unfortunately there is no ability to prevent them all together as ultimately some prudence is in the driver’s hands.