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Three Palestinians killed, more than 100 injured in Jerusalem clashes

Jerusalem (CNN) Three Israelis were killed Friday in a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement, Israeli authorities said. The attack followed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Jerusalem's Old City, in which three Palestinians were also killed, according to Palestinian officials.

A Palestinian wielding a knife stabbed and killed three Israelis in Halamish, a settlement located north of Ramallah. A fourth Israeli was wounded in the attack, the Israeli MDA emergency services told CNN.

MDA Director Eli Bin said the attacker was shot and severely wounded, and has also been evacuated to hospital. The Israeli military confirmed in a statement that the assailant had been shot.

In a statement posted on Facebook prior to the attack, the assailant said he was motivated by the Israeli government's recent restrictions on al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, according to an Israeli military spokesman. The attacker climbed a fence and "was able to penetrate one of the houses, which was close to the village perimeter," said the spokesman, who did not want to be named.

Palestinian militant group Hamas praised the attack. "We bless the heroic Halamish operation which came as a result to the Zionist occupation violations and crimes against our people in Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque," the group said on Twitter.

Read More</s>JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Six people were killed on Friday in the bloodiest spate of Israeli-Palestinian violence for years, prompted by new security Israeli measures at Jerusalem’s holiest site.

Palestinian protesters react to water canon and tear gas fired by Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Bethlehem July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

Three Israelis were stabbed to death in a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, hours after three Palestinians were killed in violence prompted by Israel’s installation of metal detectors at entry points to the Noble Sanctuary-Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem’s walled Old City.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered the suspension of all official contact with Israel until it removed the metal detectors. He gave no details, but current contacts are largely limited to security cooperation.

“I declare the suspension of all contacts with the Israeli side on all levels until it cancels its measures at al Aqsa mosque and preserves the status quo,” Abbas said in a brief televised speech.

The three Israelis stabbed to death and a fourth who was wounded were from the fenced-in West Bank settlement of Neve Tsuf. Israeli media said the three dead were all members of the same family, two men aged 60 and 40 and a woman of 40.

The wounded woman, 68, was hospitalised with stab wounds to her back, Israeli media said.

A still photo carried by Israeli television showed a kitchen floor completely red with blood. The family had sat down to a traditional Friday evening meal when the attack occurred, according to Israel Radio.

The Israeli army and media said the assailant slipped into the settlement under cover of darkness to carry out his attack.

Israel Radio identified him as a 19-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Khobar near Ramallah. It said he was shot, but his condition was not initially known.

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Earlier, Palestinian worshippers clashed with Israeli security forces. Tensions had mounted for days as Palestinians hurled rocks and Israeli police used stun grenades after the detectors were placed outside the sacred venue, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount.

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The Palestinian Health Ministry said Mohammed Sharaf, 17, and Mohammad Hassan Abu Ghannam, age unknown, died of gunshot wounds in two neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem somewhat away from the epicentre of tension in the walled Old City. It reported a third Palestinian fatality, Mohammed Lafi, 18, later.

It was not immediately clear who fired the shots, with unconfirmed media reports that an Israeli settler was responsible in Sharaf’s death.

Israel decided to install the metal detectors at the entry point to the shrine in Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Sunday, after the killing of two Israeli policemen on July 14.

The shrine includes the al Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, and the golden Dome of the Rock. It was also the site of an ancient Jewish temple, the holiest place in Judaism.

Despite international pressure to remove the metal detectors, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet decided in Friday’s early hours to keep them in place, saying they were needed to prevent arms being smuggled into the shrine.

In protest, thousands of worshippers gathered for Friday prayers at various entrances to the sacred compound, which sits on a marble and stone plateau in the Old City. They refused to enter, preferring to pray outside, in some cases filling the narrow alleyways of the Old City’s Muslim quarter.

“We reject Israeli restrictions at the Aqsa Mosque,” said Jerusalem’s senior Muslim cleric, Grand Mufti Mohammad Hussein.

Muslim leaders and Palestinian political factions had urged the faithful to gather for a “day of rage” on Friday against the new security policies, which they see as changing delicate agreements that have governed the holy site for decades.

Israeli police mobilised extra units and erected barriers to carry out checks at entrances to the Old City. Access to the shrine for Muslims was limited to men over 50 but open to women of all ages. Roadblocks were in place on approach roads to Jerusalem to stop buses carrying Muslims to the site.

At one location near the Old City, stone throwers did try to break through a police line, and police used stun grenades to drive them back.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said four officers were injured in the sporadic clashes and the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service said at least 377 protesters had been hurt, some suffering from tear gas inhalation.

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The hilltop compound has long been a source of religious friction. Since Israel captured and annexed the Old City, including the compound, in the 1967 Middle East war, it has also become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism. “This is our place of prayer, we have sovereignty here,” Salaam said.

On Thursday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to press for the removal of the metal detectors. Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East, appealed for calm and the White House called for a resolution. Jordan, the custodian of the holy site, has also been involved in mediation efforts.

But Netanyahu’s 11-member security cabinet opted in a late-night meeting to retain the metal detectors to ensure no weapons were smuggled in, a week after three Arab-Israeli gunmen shot dead two Israeli policemen in the vicinity of the complex.</s>Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Yolande Knell reports on clashes in Bethlehem

Three Palestinians have been killed during clashes with Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say.

Hundreds were injured in the violence, after days of friction over a Jerusalem holy site boiled over.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he was freezing all contacts with Israel amid unrest at the site.

Tensions have soared since two Israeli policemen were killed a week ago.

Three Israeli Arab gunmen shot the officers near the holy site known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount. The gunmen were shot dead after being pursued on to the site.

In a separate incident on Friday, three Israelis were stabbed to death after an assailant entered a home in a West Bank settlement.

Another Israeli was wounded in the attack in Halamish (also known as Neve Tsuf), near Ramallah.

Three Israelis stabbed to death in West Bank attack

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The Jerusalem holy site security row explained

Thousands of police were deployed around the Jerusalem compound on Friday morning, and Palestinian men under the age of 50 were barred from entering the Old City - a measure which is sometimes taken to try to prevent violent protests at the holy site.

Police said they fired tear gas to disperse Palestinians who threw stones and tried to break through a police barricade in the street outside.

The Palestinian health ministry said a 17-year-old Palestinian youth had been shot dead in a neighbourhood nearby. It did not specify who was behind the shooting in the Ras al-Amud area.

A second man died after being seriously wounded in Friday's clashes in A-Tur in East Jerusalem.

The Palestinian health ministry later said a third man had been killed after being shot in the chest in Abu Dis in the West Bank.

Clashes also erupted in other parts of East Jerusalem, at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, and at the northern entrance of Bethlehem.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said nearly 400 Palestinians had been hurt, with 92 people taken to hospital.

An Israeli police spokesman said four officers had been injured.

In the wake of the killing of the police last Friday, Israel installed metal detectors at entrances to the holy site. The move, however, drew an angry reaction from Palestinian and Islamic leaders who say it is a violation of the status quo.

President Abbas, in a speech, said his suspension of contacts with Israel would last until the security measures were lifted and the metal detectors removed.

Israel says the measure is necessary for security after the weapons used to kill the policemen were smuggled into the hilltop compound.

The area, in East Jerusalem, has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Middle East war.

Israel has repeatedly pledged to maintain the status quo - a delicate set of arrangements in place at the site for the past 50 years. Any changes there are often regarded by Palestinians, who claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a sought-after state, as a violation of these arrangements.

Palestinians had refused to enter the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount - home to the al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock - unless the metal detectors were removed, holding prayers outside instead.

On Friday though, a number of worshippers went into the site to pray.</s>JERUSALEM — Six people were killed on Friday in an outbreak of violence that erupted over Israel’s placement of metal detectors at entrances to the sacred Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem and spread to the West Bank.

Three Israelis were killed in what appeared to be a terrorist attack in a West Bank settlement hours after three Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli security forces.

According to the Israeli authorities, a Palestinian entered a home in the Halamish settlement on Friday night, fatally stabbed three civilians — two men and a woman — and wounded another woman, before being shot at the scene. The names of the Israeli victims were not immediately made public.

The three Palestinian protesters were fatally shot in separate clashes in and around Jerusalem. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified them as Muhammad Mahmoud Sharaf, 17, from the mostly Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud in East Jerusalem; Muhammad Abu Ghanam, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of At-Tur, which is on the Mount of Olives; and Muhammad Lafi, 18, from Abu Dis, a Palestinian town on the outskirts of the city.</s>NBC Programming to be moved to KAUT from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. NBC Programming will be moved to KAUT Freedom 43.

During that time, NBC’s Kids Programming will take its place.

You can watch NBC Sports on the KAUT channels below:</s>The program "Stay Tuned," produced by a 30-person team, resembles a regular news broadcast in that it is presented by a journalist seen on-screen. But it lasts just three minutes and consists of a rapid-fire series of video clips, none lasting even 10 seconds.

Like other news organizations that broadcast content on social media, mainly Facebook, NBC News uses subtitles on "Stay Tuned" so people can watch videos without sound.

NBC News will run the program live twice daily during the week and once a day on weekends. Recorded versions can be seen on Snapchat's Discover platform.

NBC will sell ad space for the program and share the revenue with Snapchat, CNBC reported. NBC News did not respond to an AFP request for confirmation of this.

NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC and a unit of cable operator Comcast, invested $500 million in Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, when it went public in March.</s>July 19 (Reuters) - Comcast Corp's NBC News is launching a twice-per-day news show on Snapchat, the company said on Wednesday, part of its push to attract younger viewers who tend to watch TV on mobile devices.

Comcast's NBCUniversal invested $500 million in Snapchat owner Snap Inc during its initial public offering as it seeks to boost its digital offering.

Broadcast news outlets like NBC News face an aging audience. The median age of NBC Nightly News, for example, is 64 years old, according to the Nielsen ratings agency. That is much older than the 18-to-34-year-old demographic that advertisers covet.

Last month, NBC News launched a digital video service, called "NBC Left Field" featuring short documentaries to appeal to social media users.

"This is a concerted effort that is crucial to our future," said Nick Ascheim, head of digital at NBC News.

"Stay Tuned" will focus on issues of the day and will air at 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. EDT on weekdays and 1 p.m. EDT on weekends. The show will also air for specific breaking news events.

The launch of the daily news show comes amid increasing investor skepticism about Snap's ability to grow and compete with Facebook Inc's Instagram.

Much bigger rival Facebook is also getting into original content, having signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators, including BuzzFeed, to launch shows as soon as next month, Reuters first reported in May.

Last week, Morgan Stanley, a lead underwriter on Snap's initial public offering, put a price target of $16 stock, a dollar below its March IPO price of $17, citing such concerns.

That investor skepticism does not concern NBC's Ascheim, he said, noting a lot of interest from advertisers in the new Snapchat show.

Snapchat expects the NBC news show will help increase user engagement, which is currently growing at over 30 minutes a day, said Sean Mills, head of original content at Snapchat. He said the average user comes to Snapchat more than 18 times a day.

Each news show will last three to four minutes and include two 10-second ads, Mills said, declining to comment on the financial specifics of the agreement.

While Snapchat features news through the publishers on its Discover platform, this is the first daily news show as part of the company's original content strategy launched last year.

"If something happens in the world, we want people to go to Snapchat," said Snapchat's Mills. (Reporting by Jessica Toonkel, editing by Anna Driver and Cynthia Osterman)

Read the original article on Reuters. Copyright 2017. Follow Reuters on Twitter.</s>Something you'll never see on Snapchat's daily news show with NBC: anchors sitting behind desks wearing suits and ties.

Starting Wednesday, NBC News will produce the show, which is called "Stay Tuned," twice a day for Snapchat's 166 million users. Each edition will cover the biggest news stories of the day and be a crisp two to three minutes in length.

As the first daily video series to air on Snapchat, "Stay Tuned" is the latest development in parent Snap Inc.'s nascent efforts to become a destination for exclusive shows. The company hopes to air up to three shows per day by the end of the year.

"Stay Tuned" also represents an increased focus for Snap on the specific genre of news, according to the company's head of original content, Sean Mills.

“Our ambition is very much that when something happens in the world or there’s a news event, that our audience would turn to Snapchat increasingly to get that news," Mills told Business Insider during a recent interview.

Since the beginning of 2015, Snapchat's Discover section has been home to a hand-picked and ever-expanding list of publishers, from The Washington Post to The Daily Mail. These outlets show often-repurposed stories and videos in their channels that are tailored for Snapchat's vertical video format and swipe-heavy interface.

A team of in-house editors at Snapchat also pulls together videos and photos willingly submitted by users for stories around breaking news events like elections and terrorist attacks. These so-called "Our Stories" live next to stories from outside publishers in Snapchat's Discover section.

With "Stay Tuned," NBC News will get prime real estate in the newer "Shows" section of Snapchat, which has already been home to other NBC-owned shows like "The Voice" and E! News' "The Rundown." NBCUniversal invested a whopping $500 million in Snap's initial public offering.

Interest in doing a news show on Snapchat came after NBC reporters used the app to cover the 2016 US presidential election, according to NBC head of digital Nick Ascheim. The network's staffers started sharing videos from their personal accounts that would occasionally be picked up in one of Snapchat's Our Stories and get "unbelievable amounts of traffic," he said.

“We wanted to do a news program that really felt like news as opposed to dumbing down for a different audience," Ascheim told BI. "And that was very much in line with what Snap wanted.”

A big part of Snapchat's draw for content partners and advertisers is its highly engaged, young audience. The average Snapchat user opens the app 18 times per day and 75% of daily show viewers are between the ages of 13 and 24, according to the company.

For NBC, that represents an opportunity to reach a highly sought-after demographic. A dedicated team of 30 NBC reporters and editors will produce the show and air breaking news updates throughout the day if a big enough story breaks.

“It’s an audience that we want to reach and we want to understand better," Ascheim said.

A source of inspiration for both partners was "Good Luck America," a politics show produced by Snap and hosted by the company's head of news and former CNN reporter, Peter Hamby. Since the 2016 presidential election, the show's viewership has grown by 53% in its second season and now averages over 5 million unique viewers per episode.

And while Snapchat's Discover section has been criticized for often looking like the digital equivalent of the tabloid rack at a grocery store, "Good Luck America" episodes cover issues like immigration, gun violence, and the decline of American manufacturing.

"The truth is that when we talk about Snapchat being a camera company, we talk about it being a lense into the world," said Snap original content chief Sean Mills. "We feel a sense of responsibility that lense applies into all facets of peoples’ lives. When we first did news coverage, I think it was a surprise to a lot of us. Now it’s become very expected."

Snap's partnership with NBC on "Stay Tuned" is an indefinite commitment, according to Mills. NBC will sell ads for the show and Snap will take a share of the revenue. Snap's internal production team will continue to help NBC develop the show and work on best practices for shooting and editing.

“We’re not thinking about it in terms of seasons," he said.

Snap's decision to go head-first into news comes as Facebook is preparing to unveil its own slate of original shows. Serious news coverage is one area that Facebook is shying away from with its first slate of shows, according to people familiar with the matter.

And while Facebook has been heavily criticized for its role in spreading fake news and misinformation in recent months, Snap has managed to largely avoid the issue. When asked why, Mills credited the company's approach of only working with select publishers.

"We’ve always been a bit more of a closed platform when it comes to content and content partnerships," he said. "That has allowed us to really, I think, control and maintain the credibility and the trust of our audience. That’s kept us out of some of the difficulties that other platforms have when they’re open and there’s less of a sense of trust in the information that comes over."</s>This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.

NBC will launch a news show on Snap in a bid to appeal to younger audiences on mobile, Reuters reports.

The show, dubbed “Stay Tuned," will appear in Snap’s Discover section and focus on 4 to 5 major headlines of the day. Stay Tuned will be broadcasted twice daily during weekdays at 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern time, and once at 1 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday and Sunday.

Snap’s demographic complements NBC’s strategy of targeting younger viewers. NBC’s decision comes as no surprise, given its generally older audience — the median age of NBC Nightly News is 64, according to Nielsen cited by Reuters. On the other hand, 63% of Snap’s Q4 2016 user base were 18 to 34 years old, and 22% of its Q4 2016 daily users were 13 to 17, according to its S-1 document.

NBC will need to cater its show’s content to resonate with Snap’s core users. The decision to air each Stay Tuned broadcast for 3 to 4 minutes may bode well for Snap’s young demographic. The timing of the shows is perfect for younger students in the Eastern US, who will be able to tune in before and after school. On the West Coast, a majority of these users will most likely be at school, but can easily watch short-form content during breaks from class.

NBC’s investment is another example of news networks turning to digital platforms to address aging viewer bases and target younger viewers. CNN announced it would invest $40 million in its in-house online video startup, Great Big Story. Meanwhile, Twitter partnered with Bloomberg and will begin streaming news 24 hours a day later this year.

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