In a Shufersal supermarket in the southern Israeli city of Yavneh, a store worker busy with unpacking and placing kitchen paper rolls on the shelf this morning was the target of a Palestinian Arab stabber. A high quality security camera (below) caught most of the horrifying savagery.
תיעוד פיגוע הדקירה ביבנה בעיני מצלמות האבטחה - 2.8.17 from rams on Vimeo.
What we know at this stage about the victim is limited. He is said to be a 43 year old man who suffered severe injuries in the frenzied knifing attack and is fighting for his life in Rehovot's Kaplan Hospital. The injuries, in conformance with the knifing incitement currently in vogue among the Palestinian Arabs, are to the upper part of the victim's body: the chest, the neck and the head.
The attacker, said by Times of Israel to be a 19-year-old Palestinian Arab male from the West Bank city of Nablus (but an Arab source names him as a teenage resident of Yatta), attracts no particular attention in the video. He's shown walking down an aisle where the worker is going about his business with no evident sign of wariness. Then with the worker's back turned to him, the resistance hero with the kitchen knife hurls himself at the victim, inflicting what we now know to be life-threatening injuries.
The attacker was eventually stopped and pinned down by ordinary people in the shop. They held him there [video] till police arrived [video].
There will probably be some rationalizations later in the day - desperate, impoverished, avenging his brother's girlfriend's room-mate - as the young thug with the knife helps the police with their enquiries.
But for those of us beyond the stage of "explanations", it's clear enough that what is depicted in the video is the outcome of a society lusting for blood and engaged in incitement-to-murder around the clock. There are many guilty parties.
UPDATE August 2, 2017 at 4:30 pm: The attacker is identified as Ismail Ibrahim Ismail Abu Aram, 19, from Yatta. We last mentioned that town here in connection with - what a coincidence! - an Arab-on-Israeli knifing attack barely a month ago. See "28-Jun-17: The obscene ordinariness of another woman with a knife at an Israeli checkpoint". And a year before that when a couple of Yattans opened up with machine-gun fire on Israeli customers in the Sarona Market terror attack in Tel Aviv, murdering 4 and injuring 16 others: "09-Jun-16: The Tel Aviv killings: Hamas claims credit but Fatah/PA demands some of the glory too". And before that too: "24-Dec-15: A thwarted stabbing assault near Hebron". Yatta has about 65,000 residents and is situated on Hebron's southern flank. Some 1,800 years ago, it was entirely Jewish until overrun by settlers.
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Wednesday, August 02, 2017
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
28-Jun-17: The obscene ordinariness of another woman with a knife at an Israeli checkpoint
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A Palestinian woman is caught with a knife at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. According to reports, the 36-year-old tells security forces that she planned to carry out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem. The suspect is taken in for questioning. [Times of Israel, June 28, 2017]Ynet adds the detail in its report [here] that the would-be assailant was apprehended somewhere close to the ancient Tomb of Rachel. And in the Hebrew social media, this report says the woman is from Yatta, a large and troubled town with a population of about 65,000. It was in the news last year ["09-Jun-16: The Tel Aviv killings: Hamas claims credit but Fatah/PA demands some of the glory too"] in connection with the murderous activities of two of its young residents, and their ties to Hamas.
In the social media, there's a photo of the knife in her possession - the one she says she intended to use in this thwarted Arab-on-Israeli attack. We copied it above.
Among Israelis, it's commonly thought that a significant number of the families and clans of Yatta - in common with several other notable cities and towns in the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority - have Jewish origins. Yatta was a noted Jewish settlement, described as such in documents dating back to the 5th century.
There's something about today's Palestinian Arab culture that not only makes it an ordinary detail of the daily news that a woman was found carrying a lethal knife but that she readily (as far as we can tell) confessed.
Could the PA's notorious Rewards for Terror financial program have any connection to this depravity?
Thursday, June 09, 2016
09-Jun-16: The Tel Aviv killings: Hamas claims credit but Fatah/PA demands some of the glory too
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| The Arabic caption, depicting a sweet, traditional Ramadan dessert and a bullet, reads “Tel Aviv operation.” Shehab Agency is known as the media face of the Hamas terrorists [source]. This season is known as peak time for acts of Pal Arab jihadistry |
In Tel Aviv, the murderous attack last night on the Max Brenner chocolate store in the busy and popular Sarona open-air market precinct is still being scrutinized - by those who were there and survived, by the hundreds of thousands who work nearby or pass by daily, by the authorities responsible for preventing threats to public well-being, by the news media trying to find (and often failing) to sound the right tone. (And note that there are reports of a gag order preventing disclosure by the media in Israel until June 16.)
Ynet names those murdered last as:
- Idan Ben-Aryeh, 42, from Ramat Gan;
- Ilana Nave, 39, from Tel Aviv;
- Dr. Michael Feige, 58 from Midreshet Ben-Gurion;
- Mila Mishayev, 32, from Rishon Lezion.
The Islamist terrorist group posing as a government has claimed credit - via its official Twitter account (yes, such a thing exists) - for the killings and injuries, and has praised the assailants both of whom are alive and in the hands of the appropriate Israeli authorities. It calls the shootings “heroic” and it suggests - via a chilling cartoon image [here] - more attacks are going to follow during Ramadan, the month-long Muslim religious observance that began this week. The Arabic caption, depicting a sweet, traditional Ramadan dessert, reads “Tel Aviv operation.”
Times of Israel assesses the human price this morning this way:
At least four people were killed in the terror attack Wednesday night at [Sarona]... another 16 were injured, including three in serious condition...
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| The Sarona mall website (click to enlarge) |
Ismail Haniyeh, one of the leaders of the Hamas terrorists, is widely quoted this morning calling one of the two terrorist-shooters a “hero” and intimated, for those concerned with the finer aspects of the Islamist outlook on life, that he was "praying for his soul". Times of Israel says Hamas called the killings of diners seated in a cafe “a message from children of the resistance to leaders of the occupation, especially [Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman]”...
Another Hamas statement, quoted by Ma'an, says the shooting attack
was the first “good omen” for Palestinians and the first “surprise” for the “enemy” during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began on Tuesday. Hamas spokesman Hussam Badran applauded the shooters, adding that the fact that they were able to enter Israel from the occupied West Bank showed the failureof the Israelis. This Hamas Arabic-language article is entitled "Tel Aviv the first signs of the holy month". You learn a lot once you understand what holiness means in the lexicon of this religion-based organization.
Unable to take the risk of appearing less blood-lusting than their Islamist rivals, Fatah - the party that controls the Palestinian Authority and that is headed by the PA president, Mahmoud Abbas - also issued a statement today: Israel is “reaping the repercussions of choosing violence against the Palestinian people.” According to Ma'an, Fatah media committee head Munir al-Jaghoub said the shooting was an “individual and natural response” to Israeli state violence and that "Israel must realize the consequences of its persistence to push violence, house demolition policies, forced displacement of Palestinians, raids by Israeli settlers to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, and the cold-blooded killing of Palestinians at checkpoints”. Fatah's expert made no observations on the morality of opening fire on unarmed non-combatants in a public space crowded with innocent people,.
Palestinian Arab society is in a social-media frenzy this morning adding two fresh candidates [here] to its lengthy list of weapon-toting role-models for their children and heroic figures to be praised by their political and religious leaders.
Israelis, us among them, are asking, even as three of the Israeli victims are still fighting for their lives in intensive care at nearby Ichilov hospital this morning (one of the shooters is being treated there too), whether all the security that could reasonably be deployed was present last night, and whether it can currently be found in all the other locations where it may be needed. The evidence is that the jihadists and those who dispatch them know how to read news reports.
09-Jun-16: In traumatized Tel Aviv, reading the writing on the walls
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| From Times of Israel, April 24, 2016 |
Israeli police moved on Sunday to close down the upscale Sarona Market at the center of Tel Aviv over fears that the commercial center was not sufficiently secure, but the site’s management said it would stay open. The popular compound is home to Israel’s largest indoor culinary market. Its 8,700 square meters (93,000 square feet) of market space hosts 91 shops of all varieties. The police asked the Tel Aviv Municipality to revoke Sarona’s business license, arguing that lax security put the visiting public at risk. ["Popular Tel Aviv food market faces closure over lax security", Times of Israel, April 24, 2016]Sarona was the scene tonight (Wednesday) of a brazen shooting attack by a pair of Palestinian Arab armed terrorists equipped with guns, suits and ties. As we write this, the death toll is four, three additional victims are said to be in serious condition, and many others have suffered wounds from bullets and shrapnel, as well as trauma. One or both of the gunmen are alive and in Israeli custody.
There should be no doubt at all in anyone's minds that throughout Palestinian Arab society tonight - in the villages of Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip and in the richly appointed suites of the political elite in Ramallah - those shooters of unarmed restaurant patrons are already being hailed as heroes and figures to emulate.
We hope to be able to offer a more serious analysis in the next few hours. Meanwhile our thoughts and prayers are with the injured and with the families of those murdered tonight.
Sunday, January 24, 2016
24-Jan-16: Saturday storms and deaths
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| Palestinian Arab girl with knife: Her mother says she's small and how could she stab anyone [Image Source: Security camera footage from yesterday's attack] |
Here's how Saturday looked.
At about 8 in the morning when the sun was still shining, though weakly, a Palestinian Arab child of 13 was killed after attempting to stab an Israeli security guard at the entrance to Anatot, better known to Hebrew speakers as Almon, on Jerusalem's northern periphery. The official statement issued by the Israel Police spokesperson and quoted by Haaretz, says laconically the girl fought with her family before leaving home with a knife. It names her as Rokya Abu Eid (Ma'an names her as Ruqayya Eid Abu Eid) and says her family previously lived in the Yatta refugee camp near Hebron, but are now living in the village of Anata (population: about 10,000). Haaretz says the girl "ran toward the security guard with a knife. The guard shot her, and paramedics pronounced her death shortly after..." The New York Times, under a headline that conveys the editors's skepticism ["Palestinian Girl With Knife Killed by Israeli Guard, Police Say"] says, quoting Israeli sources, that the girl
quarreled with her family on Saturday morning and then left her home with a knife “intending to die.” She arrived at the settlement about 8 a.m., the police said in a statement, and ran toward the civilian guard at the entrance, who opened fire. Grainy security camera footage from the scene appeared to show a girl with a knife in her hand chasing a guard... [New York Times, January 24, 2016]A pity the "intending to die" part didn't get into the headline but the "girl with knife killed... police say" did. Note that a British source, Telegraph UK, says
Her mother, Reeda Abu Eid, said there had been no trouble before her daughter left the family home, a tent in the Palestinian village Anata... "Ruqayya is a small girl, how could she stab someone?"How indeed.
Tragically, small girls and small boys have killed, injured and maimed dozens of innocent Israelis in the past four months of terror attacks ["01-Dec-15: The pride of Palestinian Arab society: Monstrous mothers, sacrificed children"].
Yatta happens to be where the not-so-large fifteen-year-old male child charged with murdering Dafna Meir ["18-Jan-16: Multiple Arab-on-Israeli attacks and a Jewish mother is murdered at her front door"] last week by plunging a knife into her head came from. Incidentally, while Haaretz makes no mention of Israeli casualties in yesterday's knifing attack by the 13 year old child, this Iranian news-source report says "Several Israeli soldiers sustained injuries in Saturday’s purported stabbing attack." This might be true, though it's unlikely the Israeli injured would have included IDF personnel.
In southern Israel, in the midst of freezing rain and bitter cold around 10:40 pm last night (Saturday), men with rockets inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip launched yet another of the many thousands of rockets in their possession in the general direction of anything Israeli. This was another notable failure, a Fell Short, meaning their missile failed to get even as far as the Gaza/Israel fence and exploded somewhere inside Gaza, perhaps on top of some hapless Gazan family's home or their heads. While there are currently no reports of Palestinian Arab deaths, injuries or property damage emanating from Gaza, it has been clear in the past that embarrassing casualties or damage to property resulting from Fell Shorts tend not to be reported.
From an Arab source, a reminder of the preparations for the next war that are a fundamental part of life for those Gazan Palestinian Arabs. Yet another tunnel collapsed in the southern end of the Gaza Strip during Saturday, west of Khan Younis. (The last one was just a week ago: "15-Jan-16: A tunnel collapses in Gaza".) The sole named casualty this time is described as a "Hamas-affiliated militant" Ahmad Ashour al-Najjar, 26. He died in the collapse of what Hamas calls a "resistance" tunnel. Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the name Hamas uses to refer to its terrorists, "confirmed in a statement that al-Najjar was a member of the group". Ma'an offers as background that
A number of Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in the vast tunnel networks that lie below the besieged enclave, which are largely used for smuggling in the coastal enclave's south and military purposes in the north. The Hamas movement which governs the strip is reportedly reconstructing a vast tunnel network intended to be used for carrying out attacks on Israeli military targets and civiliansIn Abu Dis, on Jerusalem's northern margin, a Palestinian Arab male of 18 died when the explosive he was carrying went off. There's some doubt whether those explosives were strapped onto him and somehow exploded prematurely or whether he fell or slipped in trying to hurl the bomb at his target. In any event, no one other than the human bomb himself was hurt. His goal, it appears, was an assault on a manned IDF checkpoint at one of the entrances from East Jerusalem. The young dead man has a name, Muhammad Halbiya, according to one source; Nabil Halabiya, according to another. Haaretz says he will be buried this morning, to be followed by three days of public mourning. Whatever the matter to which he himself felt he was dedicating his life, his death plainly failed to achieve it.
Abu Dis has been in the news in recent weeks because of a bomb factory uncovered there by Israeli security ["24-Dec-15: Another terror outrage narrowly averted - and Shalit Deal releasees are again at the heart of the darkness"] and also because of a shooting attack on one of the security checkpoints in the area ["12-Jan-16: Tuesday terror attacks: one by shooting, one by knifing"], perhaps the same one as in yesterday's self-explosion, perhaps a different one.
No sign of the storm abating.
Thursday, December 24, 2015
24-Dec-15: A thwarted stabbing assault near Hebron
(Route 60 is better known to Israelis as "Way of the Patriarchs" (Hebrew: דרך האבות) since, as Wikipedia describes, it follows the path of the ancient highway running the length of Israel's central watershed and plays a role in the travels of the Biblical patriarchs. Today's Route 60 runs north/south between Beer Sheva in Israel's Negev desert all the way to Nazareth in the Galilee.)
Kvasim has some heavy history: the service men were surely aware that three of their IDF colleagues had been killed at the same spot on January 23, 2003 in a shooting attack for which both Hamas and Fatah/PA/PLO improbably claimed 'credit'. The Hebrew name Tzomet Ha'Ari pays homage to the Hebrew names of the three fallen soldiers: אסף ביטן, רון ברד ויעקב נעים - Asaf, Ron, Yaakov).
The security checkpoint was removed by decision of the government of Israel in 2008 (reported here) and then reinstated some time later.
The assailant's weapon of choice in this morning's Kvasim attack was a screwdriver was shot and killed near the West Bank city of Hebron Thursday morning, the Israeli military said. He "approached a checkpoint near Hebron and attempted to stab the security forces", says Times of Israel's report. He was shot by IDF fire before doing any serious harm, and died of his wounds at the scene.
Ma'an News Agency identifies the failed knifer as Eiad Jamal Issa Ideis 25 (and elsewhere as Eyad Jamal Ed’eis, 26; and as Eyad Edeasat) from the town of of Yatta, located close to the scene of the attack. We assume posters announcing his elevation to martyrdom - the underlying justification and 'reward' for such pointless aggression - are being printed as we write this. In parts of the Arabic-language social media (here for instance), the attempted killer is said to have been "executed in cold blood by Israeli forces".
Fortunately, no Israelis were injured in this incident. It came less than an hour after another knifing assault near Ariel, with more serious consequences to the Israeli targets, as we reported here.
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