10-Nov-15: Arab teens and their knives: today's latest Jerusalem stabbing attack

Police and security personnel lead one of the two Pisgat
Ze'ev knifing attackers away. The second is seriously
injured. [Image: From an eye-witness]

The Jerusalem Light Rail is an easy target for the terror-minded Arabs of Jerusalem and the surrounding neighbourhoods. Rock-hurling attacks have created a constant stream of cracked windows, damaged carriages and shelters. There have been numerous vehicle-rammings aimed at passengers standing at Light Rail stops. Several innocent people have been killed in these attacks.

This afternoon (Tuesday), there are initial reports of a stabbing attack at the Yekutiel Adam station located near the eastern end of the route in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood. Israel National News says

A security guard for the Light Rail has reportedly suffered moderate injuries; Magen David Adom (MDA) medics and security forces are rushing to the scene. Two terrorists - apparently teenagers - carried out the attack; one has been arrested, the other injured after security forces opened fire. [Israel National News, just now]

The photo at right indicates at least one of the attackers is young - to our eyes, 15 or even less. The second attacker is not shown; he was evidently shot and is probably not in good shape. We don't know names, or where they live, or the condition of the one shot. A Reuters reporter tweeted that the two attackers are aged about 12-13. Ynet is reporting the same thing.

Another "victory" for Palestinian Arab education - and quite possibly for UNRWA as well.

Times of Israel says the Light Rail security guard, who was moderately wounded in the attack, managed to fire his weapon toward the two attackers, wounding one according to the police. He received emergency treatment at at the scene and then rushed to Jerusalem's Shaarei Zedek Medical Center. He is about 25, and has stab wounds to the upper body.

The face of children abused: the
Palestinian Arab boy who, with
a friend, launched a stabbing
attack this afternoon on a security
guard on a Jerusalem tram. We think
his name is Muawiya Alqam.

UPDATE November 10, 2015: This photo, spotted in the social media, is said to be one of the two attackers. Obviously just a child, and obviously ready to kill himself an Israeli because of ideas planted in his head by figures of authority in his society.

Who might they be? Specific individuals are hard to find or name, except for one: Mahmoud Abbas.

When, as he has done several times in the past two years, whom is Abbas addressing when he stands on some public rostrum and in his capacity as head of Fatah and president of the state of Palestine holds aloft the arms of terrorists, convicted in Israeli courts of acts of murder in the name of Islam or of Islamism or Palestinianism or Pan-Arabism or it hardly matters what, and calls them heroes? When he declares (as he did in December 2013 - source):

"This is the day the joy of all of us the joy of our people for our prisoner heroes who came out today to the light of freedom to live free, we congratulate you and congratulate ourselves with these heroes who arrived here and who arrived in Jerusalem, Gaza, and the rest will come, God willing..."

to whom is he speaking?

To this kid.

UPDATE November 11, 2015: The two weaponized Palestinian Arab children charged with today's stabbing are identified, according to the New York Times ["Violent Loop Engulfs Youths in Jerusalem"]:

Ali Alqam, 12, and Muawiya Alqam, 14, have been arrested, accused of a copycat stabbing that wounded an Israeli security guard on a light railway train in East Jerusalem, not far from their homes in the Shuafat refugee camp and the nearby Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina.

The aged, wealthy, failed, murder-minded leaders of the Mahmoud Abbas-led Palestinian Authority must be so proud.

24-Sep-15: A day of violence - perhaps not as violent as feared

Hebron, moments before the shooting by an IDF soldier of
a woman whose knife was detected by a security machine and
who evidently pulled it to launch a stabbing attack [Image Source: Reuters] 

There's nothing quite as potent as holidays to expose our neighbours' passion for the sort of lethal violence we described yesterday ["22-Sep-15: What do the Palestinian Arabs think?"]

Tonight is the night after Yom Kippur, the 25 hour day of fasting, introspection and prayer that ended here in Jerusalem about 6 hours ago, and is drawing to a close right now in North and South America. It's also the start of the Muslim festival of Eid el-Adha.

Here's a selective, non-chronological summary of how the day (and the evening before it) passed for those charged with keeping Israelis (of every sort) safe.

• A young woman of about 18 attempted Tuesday to stab a Border Police officer at the Kikar Hashoter security checkpoint in Hevron. She was promptly shot and seriously wounded, and eventually succumbed to her injuries later in the day. No Israelis were harmed. [Israel National News, September 23, 2015]. Haaretz reports that the woman, Hadeel al-Hashlamun (in some places, written as Hadeel al-Hashlamon, was shot after launching a stabbing attack on a soldier. It quotes a preliminary investigation into the incident conducted by the IDF's Judea Regional Brigade commander: he found that a metal detector went off when the Palestinian Arab women walked through the security checkpoint; the soldiers manning the post called on her to stop. She failed to do so, and they then fired warning rounds into the ground in front of her. Then "the soldiers claim she pulled out a knife, and that's when they fired shots at her legs. The soldiers said they opened fire for a second time after the woman tried again to raise the knife."
• Just after midnight on Tuesday, the body of an Arab was found near Beit Haggai, south of Hevron. An initial investigation shows that he was killed while attempting to throw a bomb at a military vehicle. Security forces had been alerted to the scene when local residents spotted an improvised roadblock on the highway. As they combed the area, they heard an explosion and later found the body of the terrorist. He was apparently killed while trying to deploy the bomb against the soldiers. [Israel National News, September 23, 2015] The Reuters version: A Palestinian militant died when a bomb he was trying to throw at Israeli forces blew up near the West Bank city of Hebron overnight, officials from both sides said on Tuesday" [Reuters]
• Rocks were thrown Monday evening at Egged's Line 140 bus to the Samarian community of Beit El. The vehicle's windshield was smashed. Thankfully, no injuries. [Israel National News, September 23, 2015]
• Israel Defense Forces troops manning a post in the Jordan Valley arrested a Palestinian man who approached their position carrying an explosive device, the military said Wednesday. The incident occurred hours after the Yom Kippur holiday ended. The suspect was taken in for interrogation, the army said. [Times of Israel, September 23, 2015]
• Two firebombs were hurled at the at the fence of the Samaria community of Psagot, near Ramallah. Palestinian Arabs were suspected, Israel Radio reported. The explosives failed to ignite and no injuries are reported. [Times of Israel, September 23, 2015]
• Rocks were hurled yet again at a Jerusalem Light Rail tram by Arabs in the North Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat. Damage was caused to the vehicle but no injuries. Police are searching for suspects. [Times of Israel, September 23, 2015]
• A car was struck by rocks and damaged on Highway 75. [Israel National News, September 23, 2015]
• Several fires were reported to have been set in Jerusalem during Yom Kippur. Arson is suspected. [Times of Israel, September 23, 2015]
• A firebomb caused damage to the balcony and garden of a home in the Jerusalem mixed (Jewish and Arab) neighborhood of Abu Tor after midnight on Wednesday morning (Yom Kippur). [Times of Israel, September 23, 2015]
• A brush fire in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev, close to Moshe Dayan Boulevard, a major thoroughfare - but almost empty on Yom Kippur - is believed to have been deliberately set. [Times of Israel, September 23, 2015]
• A fire in scrubland near Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo is also believed to have been caused by an act of arson. [Times of Israel, September 23, 2015]
• A fire was set on Cassuto Street, in the intensely-populated Jerusalem neighborhood of Bayit Vagan, close to a synagogue. Fortunately, no injuries were reported [Times of Israel, September 23, 2015]
• Multiple reports of Arab rock-throwers targeting Israeli Jews in their vehicles during the past 36 hours, including Yom Kippur, in parts of northern Israel ["Arab Violence Erupts in Northern Israel During Yom Kippur", Israel National News, September 23, 2015]: Arabs youths placing boulders in the road to block the entrance to the northern community of Dovav on Monday night after Yom Kippur began. Police detained them for questioning. [Israel National News, September 23, 2015]
• Also: Arab youths threw rocks at a passing car near Hosen Junction on Route 89. No one was injured and there was no damage to the vehicle, though police have still opened an investigation. [Israel National News, September 23, 2015]
• Also: An Israeli vehicle traveling near Golani Junction, a major northern intersection, was hit by rocks. Tiberias police are investigating. [Israel National News, September 23, 2015]

Overall, the enlarged police presence in Jerusalem, along with the closing of security checkpoints between Judea-Samaria and Jerusalem to mark Yom Kippur, have had a positive effect on keeping the violence level relatively subdued.

12-Mar-09: Neighbourhood watch

A small reminder of what it means to be living side by side with a culture - that of the Palestinan Arabs in the era of Hamas and Fatah - that constantly encourages and nurtures acts of personal terrorism.

Alert police tonight (Wednesday) here in Jerusalem spotted a terrorist en route to carry out a stabbing. Haaretz says the would-be martyr is a young woman and that, as happens frequently, she confessed her plan on being arrested. She was spotted in Jerusalem's Old City near the entrance to the Temple Mount, with an essential item of religious worship on her body: a kitchen knife like those used in so many previous killings of Israelis.

Two police officers patrolling the area spotted her, recovered the knife and took her into custody.

Three days ago, on Monday, Israeli police arrested two young Arab men carrying a commando knife in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood of Jerusalem. They too admitted their plan to carry out a stabbing attack on Israelis.

Terrorism like these acts rarely gets reported outside Israel.