This Ongoing War: A Blog: 31-Dec-15: In Jerusalem, soldiers save two children from turning into murderers

Thursday, December 31, 2015

31-Dec-15: In Jerusalem, soldiers save two children from turning into murderers

These knives were taken from the two pre-teen Palestinian
Arab children yesterday [Image Source]

A small story that has probably slipped beneath the radar for most people. From Ynet today:

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Thursday extended the remand of two 12-year-old Palestinian boys caught the previous day carrying knives. Police says the two planned to commit a stabbing attack, but they deny the accusations. The two children from Kafr 'Aqb were caught in Jerusalem around 6pm after raising the suspicion of police and civilians who saw them walking at the corner of Hahoma HaShlishit Street and Kheil ha-Handasa. Policemen at the scene approached the two and noticed they had their hands in their pockets. After searching them, the officers found the knives.

The two children made their way into town from their homes in Kafr Aqab, the northernmost Palestinian Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Though located within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries, it's a mere two kilometers from Ramallah where the Mahmoud Abbas regime is based. The town had roughly 10,000 residents when a census was last conducted in 2006. One of the other residents was a young man called Ahmad Hamada Quneibi, 23, who was shot dead by Israeli security personnel on October 30, 2015 in the course of carrying out a murderous terror attack in Jerusalem. At the time it happened, we wrote this:

In the past few minutes (it's now Friday 1:45 pm), a stabbing attack by Arabs was launched on Israeli civilians standing at a tram stop in the Ammunition Hill section of Jerusalem. Israel National News says one of the injured is a yeshiva student of 22 with stab wounds to the upper body. He is evidently only one of several victims. The attacker was shot dead. No details about his identity yet. ["30-Oct-15: As Hamas announces more rage, "lone wolf" attackers pounce on cue"]

Now we know his identity. At a guess, his "martyrdom" is probably one of the factors that brought a couple of twelve year-old kids to emulate some of his "fame" yesterday.

What a tragically-flawed, massively-self-destructive society they are creating for their children over there.

No comments:

About us

THIS ONGOING WAR is not part of the activity of the Malki Foundation which was founded by us, Frimet and Arnold Roth of Jerusalem, on September 11, 2001. But it is inspired by the same tragic circumstances. The Malki Foundation (also known by its Hebrew name: Keren Malki) is a memorial to the life of our daughter, Malki who was murdered at the age of 15 in a massacre in the centre of Jerusalem carried out by Hamas.

Beyond its function as a remembrance of a beautiful life, the foundation provides tangible, concrete, invaluable support daily to several thousand Israeli families from every part of the religious and socio-economic spectrum: Christian, Moslem, Jewish, Druze and others who care at home for a seriously disabled child.

Reach us at thisongoingwar@gmail.com

Good for the soul | The Malki Foundation

If you care to make a positive and constructive contribution to the care of Israeli children with special needs - whether they're Christian, Moslem, Jewish, Druze or unconnected to any particular faith community - you can't do better than direct your donation to the work of the Malki Foundation.

It's the charitable organization we, the bloggers who produce This Ongoing War, established in 2001 in memory of our murdered daughter. Her name is Malki.

Keren Malki (in Hebrew, Keren means 'foundation' or 'fund') is efficient, effective, non-sectarian, non-political and unique in the good work it does. Thousands of families from every part of our richly diverse society here in Israel have benefited in concrete and meaningful ways. Donations to Keren Malki are tax-effective in Israel, Canada, UK and the United States.

There's also plenty of background at www.malkifoundation.org as well as on the Malki Foundation Blog.

Fair use notice

This blog may contain copyrighted material that may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material, published without profit, is made available for educational purposes, to advance understanding of human rights, democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues. It is published in accordance with the provisions of Israel's 2007 Copyright Law, the US Copyright Act of 1976, the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada ruling and similar laws in other jurisdictions.