18 oct 2015
Killed Attacker
One Israeli was killed and seven others have been injured in a shooting and stabbing anti-occupation attack at Beer Sheba's Central Bus Station on Sunday evening.
One of the casualties was seriously injured and four more have suffered moderate wounds. The seventh casualty is lightly wounded.
The attacker was reportedly armed with a handgun and a knife.
The unidentified shooter opened fire at an Israeli occupation soldier and killed him before he seized his assault rifle and began firing at a group of policemen, four of whom were injured.
Another man was also shot and killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the belief that he was the attacker. However, the casualty has been identified as a tourist who has nothing to do with the attack.
Observers attributed the attack to Israel’s mounting terrorism against Palestinian civilians and Muslims’ the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Soldier murdered at Be'er Sheva bus terminal terror attack
One Israeli was killed and seven others have been injured in a shooting and stabbing anti-occupation attack at Beer Sheba's Central Bus Station on Sunday evening.
One of the casualties was seriously injured and four more have suffered moderate wounds. The seventh casualty is lightly wounded.
The attacker was reportedly armed with a handgun and a knife.
The unidentified shooter opened fire at an Israeli occupation soldier and killed him before he seized his assault rifle and began firing at a group of policemen, four of whom were injured.
Another man was also shot and killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the belief that he was the attacker. However, the casualty has been identified as a tourist who has nothing to do with the attack.
Observers attributed the attack to Israel’s mounting terrorism against Palestinian civilians and Muslims’ the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Soldier murdered at Be'er Sheva bus terminal terror attack
Omri Levy
Nine people wounded in shooting and stabbing attack after terrorist grabbed M-16 rifle from soldier; terrorist killed, Eritrean man thought to be a second terrorist critically wounded.
A terrorist, who shot a soldier and snatched his M-16 rifle from him, opened fire at Be'er Sheva's central bus terminal on Sunday evening, murdering the soldier and wounding 11 others, several of them members of Israel's security forces.
Five people were seriously wounded - two of them very seriously, four others were in moderate condition and the rest in light condition. Seven others were suffering from shock. All wounded were taken to the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva.
The terrorist arrived at the bus terminal armed with a knife, a gun and ammunition, and started attacking passersby. He tried to stab a woman, who hit him with pepper spray, and then shot a soldier and snatched his M-16 rifle, shooting in all directions.
Security forces who were already at the station on their way home or to their bases opened fire at the terrorist, who escaped out of the bus terminal, where he was shot down and killed after a gun fight with security forces who arrived at the scene.
At first, it was believed there were two attackers, but it later transpired that the second man who was gunned down was an Eritrean man. He was shot in his lower extremities by the bus terminal's head of security, who thought him to be a terrorist, as the Eritrean was fleeing the ensuring gun fight, and is in critical condition.
Nine people wounded in shooting and stabbing attack after terrorist grabbed M-16 rifle from soldier; terrorist killed, Eritrean man thought to be a second terrorist critically wounded.
A terrorist, who shot a soldier and snatched his M-16 rifle from him, opened fire at Be'er Sheva's central bus terminal on Sunday evening, murdering the soldier and wounding 11 others, several of them members of Israel's security forces.
Five people were seriously wounded - two of them very seriously, four others were in moderate condition and the rest in light condition. Seven others were suffering from shock. All wounded were taken to the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva.
The terrorist arrived at the bus terminal armed with a knife, a gun and ammunition, and started attacking passersby. He tried to stab a woman, who hit him with pepper spray, and then shot a soldier and snatched his M-16 rifle, shooting in all directions.
Security forces who were already at the station on their way home or to their bases opened fire at the terrorist, who escaped out of the bus terminal, where he was shot down and killed after a gun fight with security forces who arrived at the scene.
At first, it was believed there were two attackers, but it later transpired that the second man who was gunned down was an Eritrean man. He was shot in his lower extremities by the bus terminal's head of security, who thought him to be a terrorist, as the Eritrean was fleeing the ensuring gun fight, and is in critical condition.
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Wounded Eritrean
While lying wounded on the floor, passersby who also thought him to be a terrorist beat him up - kicking him, spitting on him and cursing at him. Paramedics trying to evacuate the wounded Eritrean to the hospital ran into objection from the crowds at the scene, who blocked their way and called out "Death to Arabs," "Arabs out!" and "Am Israel Hai" ("The people of Israel still live"). Before snatching the M-16 rifle, the terrorist tried to stab an Israeli woman at the station. "I was at the central bus terminal before everything started. I saw the terrorist, he tried to stab me with a knife to the stomach. I kneed him and then hit him with pepper spray," said Sima Kozoshvili. "He chased me, and a Border Policeman came and tried to help me and I passed out and his my head. I saved my own life - without the pepper spray, I would've died on the spot," she added. Questions arose about the ease with which the terrorist was able to enter the central bus terminal armed, despite security posted at entrances. "We're currently looking into the issue of security at the central bus station. Since the wave of attacks began, we've increased security," Be'er Sheva mayor Ruvik Danilovich told Ynet, clarifying it was impossible to "hermetically seal any place." |
"This was a very serious attack that could've ended far worse if it hadn't been for the resourcefulness of security forces who neutralized the terrorist," Danilovich said.
He called on Be'er Sheva residents "not to take law into their own hands and let security forces do their job," and urged them "to remain vigilant."
"We're in a campaign that seeks to hit us where it hurts, have civilians walking around frightened. I understand the heightened emotions, but we have to be restrained, and we will win. Don't panic," he added. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad welcomed the attack, saying it was a "natural response to the cold-blooded executions of Palestinians by the IDF and the settlers."
Both groups issued statements saying the intifada would continue and escalate until reaching the goals of "deterring the occupier and getting rid of it for good."
The attack was one of the most serious incidents amid near-daily bouts of violence that has hit Israel and the Palestinian territories over the past month.
The unrest erupted in Jerusalem a month ago over tensions surrounding the Temple Mount, a Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims. It soon spread to Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and then to the West Bank, Gaza and Israel.
Israel has struggled to contain near-daily attacks by Palestinian assailants. Authorities have blocked roads and placed checkpoints at the entrances of Palestinian neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. Other security measures include ID checks and requiring some Palestinian residents to lift their shirts and roll up pant legs as they exit their neighborhoods to prove they are not carrying knives. Soldiers have been deployed in Jerusalem and cities across Israel.
The daily attacks have caused a sense of panic across Israel and raised fears that the region is on the cusp of a new round of heavy violence.
The outbreak was fueled by rumors that Israel was plotting to take over Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, a hilltop compound revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine and a key national symbol for the Palestinians.
Israel has adamantly denied the allegations, saying it has no plans to change the status quo at the site, where Jews are allowed to visit but not pray. It accuses the Palestinians of inciting to violence through the false claims.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his government would start going after the finances of the Islamic Movement in Israel, a group he accuses of being the chief inciter of the recent violence.
"Israel is not the problem at the Temple Mount, Israel is the solution," he told his Cabinet. "We will protect the status quo, we are the only ones who are doing this and we will continue to do it responsibly and seriously."
Hamas hails Beer Sheba anti-occupation attack
Hamas on Sunday evening praised the anti-occupation shooting and stabbing attack in Beer Sheba’s bus station on the same day, in which one Israeli was killed and nine others were injured.
Hamas spokesman Husam Badran said in a statement: “The heroic anti-occupation attackers have dealt a heavy blow to Israel’s national security.”
He added that the operation confirms “the determination of the Palestinian people.”
“The flames of the ongoing Intifada (uprising) shall never be put out until Palestinians’ demands are met and the Israeli occupation comes to an end,” Badran further stated.
Nine Israelis have reportedly been injured and another was killed in a stabbing and shooting attack in a bus station in Beer Sheba city.
He called on Be'er Sheva residents "not to take law into their own hands and let security forces do their job," and urged them "to remain vigilant."
"We're in a campaign that seeks to hit us where it hurts, have civilians walking around frightened. I understand the heightened emotions, but we have to be restrained, and we will win. Don't panic," he added. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad welcomed the attack, saying it was a "natural response to the cold-blooded executions of Palestinians by the IDF and the settlers."
Both groups issued statements saying the intifada would continue and escalate until reaching the goals of "deterring the occupier and getting rid of it for good."
The attack was one of the most serious incidents amid near-daily bouts of violence that has hit Israel and the Palestinian territories over the past month.
The unrest erupted in Jerusalem a month ago over tensions surrounding the Temple Mount, a Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims. It soon spread to Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and then to the West Bank, Gaza and Israel.
Israel has struggled to contain near-daily attacks by Palestinian assailants. Authorities have blocked roads and placed checkpoints at the entrances of Palestinian neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. Other security measures include ID checks and requiring some Palestinian residents to lift their shirts and roll up pant legs as they exit their neighborhoods to prove they are not carrying knives. Soldiers have been deployed in Jerusalem and cities across Israel.
The daily attacks have caused a sense of panic across Israel and raised fears that the region is on the cusp of a new round of heavy violence.
The outbreak was fueled by rumors that Israel was plotting to take over Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, a hilltop compound revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine and a key national symbol for the Palestinians.
Israel has adamantly denied the allegations, saying it has no plans to change the status quo at the site, where Jews are allowed to visit but not pray. It accuses the Palestinians of inciting to violence through the false claims.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his government would start going after the finances of the Islamic Movement in Israel, a group he accuses of being the chief inciter of the recent violence.
"Israel is not the problem at the Temple Mount, Israel is the solution," he told his Cabinet. "We will protect the status quo, we are the only ones who are doing this and we will continue to do it responsibly and seriously."
Hamas hails Beer Sheba anti-occupation attack
Hamas on Sunday evening praised the anti-occupation shooting and stabbing attack in Beer Sheba’s bus station on the same day, in which one Israeli was killed and nine others were injured.
Hamas spokesman Husam Badran said in a statement: “The heroic anti-occupation attackers have dealt a heavy blow to Israel’s national security.”
He added that the operation confirms “the determination of the Palestinian people.”
“The flames of the ongoing Intifada (uprising) shall never be put out until Palestinians’ demands are met and the Israeli occupation comes to an end,” Badran further stated.
Nine Israelis have reportedly been injured and another was killed in a stabbing and shooting attack in a bus station in Beer Sheba city.
13 oct 2015
Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky 60
Two Palestinians were killed after attacking Israeli civilians on a bus in Armon HaNatziv, in central Israel, killing two Israelis and wounding 18.
In a separate attack on Tuesday morning, a 22-year old Palestinian man allegedly stabbed a 32-year old Israeli just before 9 am near the bus station in the Israeli city of Ra’anana. The Palestinian was then shot by several Israeli bystanders and critically injured.
Israeli authorities are investigating a possible second attack in Ra’anana – but it may just have been separate reports of the same attack.
A third alleged attack by a Palestinian against Israelis remains uncertain – the incident may just have been a traffic accident, despite Israeli claims that the Palestinian driver deliberately drove his car into an Israeli one.
The two attacks on Israelis on Tuesday follow three alleged attacks that took place on Monday in which 6 Israelis were wounded and three alleged Palestinian attackers were killed. Another Palestinian boy, a 13-year old child, was seriously wounded, and while the Israeli military claimed that the boy was involved in an attack against Israelis, he had no weapon and eyewitnesses contradicted this claim.
Following the two attacks on Tuesday, Israeli Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat declared a closure of all Palestinian areas in the city, and a lockdown on all of the Israeli-established border crossings through the Israeli Annexation Wall into the West Bank.
Barkat stated, "We shouldn't allow them to enter … the lives of the residents of Jerusalem are more important than anything else."
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon to plan more restrictive measures and crackdowns on the Palestinian civilian population of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza Strip.
While there has been an upsurge in violence in recent weeks, it is still largely Palestinian civilians who are the most impacted – more than 1400 have been wounded and 29 killed since October 1st. 4 Israelis have been killed and 25 wounded in that time period, all of them by Palestinian ‘lone wolf’ attackers.
The number of people killed and wounded in Israel during the past two weeks has been less than the average number of Palestinians killed and wounded in any given two-week period in the past year.
2 Israelis killed, 17 injured in two separate attacks in O.J
Two stabbing and car ramming attacks were carried out at separate locations in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. Two Israeli settlers were killed and several others were injured during the attacks.
A stabbing and shooting attack took place aboard a bus in Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem. According to Israeli police two suspects carried out the attack.
Israeli media sources said that two men got on an Egged line 78 bus in Armon Hanatziv and opened gunfire at passengers. Paramedics pronounced two persons dead on the scene. Four additional people were transported to hospital, one seriously wounded and 3 moderately wounded, likely with gunshot wounds.
Israeli police said that 16 people in total were wounded in the attack, the sources added.
In a separate attack in occupied Jerusalem, Israeli police claimed that a driver rammed his car into a bus stop, got out of his car and began stabbing pedestrians.
The Israeli medical sources pronounced one person dead on the scene and treated another person who suffered light injuries.
Police said that a total of five people were wounded in the second attack.
The attacks came shortly after another stabbing attack in Ra'anana city. In that attack, two Israelis were lightly wounded and the suspect was killed by passersby. A second attack occurred in Ra'anana some 90 minutes later, in which 4 Israelis were wounded. The suspect was then arrested.
The incidents came after 27 Palestinians were killed and 1400 others were injured during clashes with Israeli forces across the occupied Palestinian territories.
IOF soldiers have also launched last night a large-scale raid and arrest campaign in occupied Jerusalem. Ten Palestinian youths were reported arrested during the campaign.
300 Palestinians were detained in occupied Jerusalem in September including 16 women, 104 minors, and 21 students, a rights groups said.
Israeli media: Three murdered, dozens wounded in 5 attacks
Over a dozen wounded in two simultaneous attacks in Jerusalem's East Talpiot and Geula neighborhoods; in two Ra'anana attacks: 1 seriously hurt, 3 moderately and 1 lightly; fifth stabbing takes place near IKEA in northern city of Kiryat Ata.
Three people were murdered and dozens were wounded in five terror attacks in Jerusalem, Ra'anana and Kiryat Ata on Tuesday. One of the victims was idenified as Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky, 60.
Hamas praised the attacks, saying they are "a message to anyone who harms our holy places. We call to continue the intifada, which is the natural response to the world's silence."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his Security Cabinet at midday to decide on further steps to take in light of the ongoing terror attacks.
In Kiryat Ata, a northern city near Haifa, a terrorist stabbed at least one person outside IKEA. The attacker has been subdued, while the victim's was moderately wounded. Both stabber and victim are Jewish, but it remains unclear whether the stabbing was a nationalistic incident or a criminal one. Police were investigating the suspicion that the attacker wanted to stab an Arab, but mistook the nationality of his victim.
Simultaneous attacks in JerusalemThree were murdered and 17 others wounded in two simultaneous morning attacks in Jerusalem's East Talpiot and Geula neighborhoods.
Two terrorists - Baha Aliyan, 22, and Bilal Ranem, 23, both from Jabel Mukaber - boarded an Egged bus on Olei HaGardom Street in East Talpiot, a neighborhood also known as Armon HaNetziv, one armed with a gun and the other with a knife.
They started shooting and stabbing passengers while the bus kept moving, killing a man in his 60s and wounding ten others. One of the wounded, a man in his 40s, was evacuated in critical condition and was declared dead at the hospital.
Two others were seriously wounded - women aged around 60 and 40, who suffered stab wounds to their upper body. Two others were in moderate condition: A woman about 60 years old with gunshot wounds to her upper body and a man in his 30s. Three were lightly wounded, and two were suffering from shock.
A security guard at the scene was able to overpower one of them and shoot him. The terrorist then tried to get up and resume his attack, but the security guard shot him again.
The second terrorist locked the bus' doors in an attempt to stop security forces from boarding, as well as stopping passengers from fleeing. Policemen opened fire at him from outside the bus.
Aliyan was killed, while Ranem was wounded and neutralized.
Eye-witnesses said one of the terrorists took over the driver's seat in an attempt to kidnap the bus. Golan Cohen-Gabai, one of the eye-witnesses, said he used his car to block off the bus and stop the terrorist from taking it.
"Then he opened the doors and wanted to come at me with a knife. I closed the windows, so he ran back and returned with a gun.... I held him here for two minutes and then police forces arrived," he said.
Rubi Mahatbi, 18, was lightly wounded in the attack. "I took bus 78 to the city center. The two terrorists sat there and didn't look suspicion to me, but as soon as the bus started moving, the terrorist drew out a gun, yelled 'Allahu Akbar,' and shot a person as he came in my direction. I hid near the door and tried to escape. He drew a knife and started stabbing a military man. The second terrorist grabbed me and tried to attack me, but I hit him and was able to escape," he said.
"That moment, you feel fear and stress and you don't know what to do. I preferred running away rather than confronting him. I have bruises on my neck from his attempts to choke me. At that moment, all I was thinking about was I was either going to survive this or I die," he added.
An MDA paramedic who arrived at the scene of the attack described it as chaotic, saying gunfire was heard as rescue teams arrived. On Malkhei Yisrael Street in Geula, a terrorist drove a car into a bus stop, hitting two pedestrians - one of which, 60-year-old Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky, was killed and the other seriously wounded. The terrorist then left the vehicle and started repeatedly stabbing the two victims. A security guard who was nearby arrived at the scene of the attack and shot the terrorist, critically wounding him.
Magen David Adom said it provided treatment to eight people: One in moderate-to-serious condition with injuries to his upper body and limbs, one in moderate condition, one lightly wounded with bruises to his face, and five suffering from shock.
Moshe Shmueli was lightly wounded in the attack. "We can see what's happening in the country. It's an act from heaven that comes to awaken the people of Israel," he said.
"I wanted to take bus 59 and was waiting at the bus stop when all of a sudden a vehicle appeared and rammed into the bus stop with great force," Shmueli recounted. "I was sitting inside the bus stop while outside was an older man. It could've been a lot worse. I was near the terrorist who got out of the car - a giant man with hatred - and started hitting me and I immediately realized it wasn't an accident, but a terror attack. I left everything and ran. All of a sudden I heard gunfire and people telling me to run. I went into a house and the good people there treated me."
"We have to stop this entire situation," Shmueli added. "We can't put a policeman to protect each civilian, only the Torah can protect us."
The terrorist, identified as Alaa Abu Jamal, a resident of Jabel Mukaber in East Jerusalem who has Israeli citizenship, was an employee of Israeli phone company Bezeq, and was using a company car to commit the attack.
A statement issued by Bezeq said: "We just learned that a Bezeq employee was responsible for the terror attack in Jerusalem this morning on Malkhei Yisrael Street. At this point we do not have all of the details, but it is clear this is a serious incident.
"Bezeq, and all of its employees, scorns this heinous crime. Our hearts are with the victims and their families."
Abu Jamal is related to the two terrorists who committed the slaughter at the Har Nof synagogue in November 2014 - cousins Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal.
Wounded from both Jerusalem attacks were taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center and to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Karem.
Shaare Zedek received eight wounded: One of them was in critical condition and declared dead upon his arrival to the hospital; two were in serious condition, one of them already taken into operation; three were in moderate condition and two in light condition.
Hadassah Ein Karem received five wounded - two of them were the terrorists. One of the terrorists was declared dead, while the other was in serious condition. The other three wounded were the Jewish victims - one was critically wounded, one seriously wounded, and one light-to-moderately wounded.
Two attacks on main Ra'anana streetFour people were wounded in a stabbing attack at a bus stop outside the Beit Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center on Jerusalem Street in Ra'anana.
After stabbing his victims, the terrorist, an East Jerusalem resident in his late 20s, fled towards Ahuza Street, a major thoroughfare in the Sharon plains city, pursued by civilians. A driver passing by noticed the ongoing chase and hit the terrorist with his car. A taxi driver who was at the scene helped subdue the terrorist.
Large police forces who arrived at the scene arrested the terrorist, who was employed at the nearby Beit Loewenstein. He was taken to hospital in serious condition.
"We saw the terrorist stabbing a helpless older man who was standing at the bus stop. We immediately knew it was a terror attack," recounted two people working in one of the businesses in the commercial center, where the attack occurred.
"We immediately started calling out 'Terrorist! Terrorist!' He dropped his knife and started running towards the nearby Ahuza Street. We chased him and then he drew another knife, a smaller one, and kept trying to stab us," they continued.
"We called out to drivers to help us and then they hindered his escape, and we managed to catch him on Ahuza Street along with other people. He received quite a beating. Only after he was neutralized, he let go of the knife, and then the police came and arrested him," they said.
Other eye witnesses said the terrorist was wearing an orange vest.
At least one person was seriously wounded, suffering stab wounds to his upper body, including his neck, while the others were lightly-to-moderately hurt. The wounded were taken to the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba and the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikvah.
Earlier, one Israeli was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack in Ra'anana while waiting for the bus not far from the city hall on Ahuza Street.
A terrorist, resident of East Jerusalem, attempted to stab him. He fought off the terrorist and was hurt in the struggle. Other civilians came to his aid and helped him overpower the terrorist, who was lightly wounded.
Maden David Adom paramedics evacuated the wounded Israeli, 32, to the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba with stab wounds to his upper body. Ra'anana mayor Ze'ev Bielski, who spoke to the victim, Yair Ben Ezra, said Ben Ezra told him he suspected the stabber.
"He said, 'I saw there was something about him' - and that is why the stab wounds were likely not where the stabber wanted and he fought him and managed to come out in reasonable condition," Bielski told Ynet.
Ben Ezra was also waiting for the bus. "I was standing at the bus stop for bus 437 to Tel Aviv, reading the paper about all of the terror attacks," he recounted.
"I saw a strange man who was sweating. He seemed suspicion and he was holding a knife. All of a sudden he started stabbing me again and again. I pushed him to the ground with my left hand. I was lying on the ground for a minute and a half. He yelled 'Allahu Akbar.' He had a murderous look in his eyes. He stabbed me in the neck, at the back of the head and in my hand. My entire body hurt. I knew there was a mother and children nearby and I had to save them and that he must not stab them."
Large police forces from the Sharon plains district arrived at the scene following the attack.Following the attacks, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, holding him responsible for the attack.
"Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh has praised and glorified a 13-year-old Palestinian who set out with a butcher knife to murder Israeli children in a candy shop," she said.
"The blood of Israeli citizens is on the hands of Mahmoud Abbas and his colleagues who are inciting children to commit murder. The Palestinian Authority, instead of preventing violence, has become an incubator for fanatic terrorism which is striking daily at Israeli citizens."
Hotovely called on Israel's government to consider halting money transfers to the Palestinian Authority.
"The Foreign Ministry urges donor countries to use their influence to effect a cessation in violence and incitement by the Palestinian Authority," she added.
Overnight Monday, IDF and Judea and Samaria police forces arrested 15 wanted Palestinians in the West Bank, who are suspected of involvement in terror activity and violent rioting against civilians and security forces.
The arrested Palestinians, some of which are suspected of stone-throwing, were taken into questioning.
Tuesday's attacks are the latest incident in a monthlong wave of attacks, the worst spell of street violence for years, stirred in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.
Since the Rosh HaShana last month, five Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a shooting, a stoning and a series of stabbings.
At least 26 Palestinians been killed by Israeli fire, including 10 attackers and the rest in clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli troops. Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded in such confrontations.
On Monday, Palestinians carried out three stabbings in Jerusalem, leaving a teenage Israeli boy in critical condition.
The daily knife attacks have stoked concern of a new Palestinian uprising and though Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have appealed for calm, the violence shows no signs of abating.
Palestinian groups have declared a "Day of Rage" on Tuesday across the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The leaders of Israel's Arab community have called for a commercial strike in their towns and villages.
Two Palestinians were killed after attacking Israeli civilians on a bus in Armon HaNatziv, in central Israel, killing two Israelis and wounding 18.
In a separate attack on Tuesday morning, a 22-year old Palestinian man allegedly stabbed a 32-year old Israeli just before 9 am near the bus station in the Israeli city of Ra’anana. The Palestinian was then shot by several Israeli bystanders and critically injured.
Israeli authorities are investigating a possible second attack in Ra’anana – but it may just have been separate reports of the same attack.
A third alleged attack by a Palestinian against Israelis remains uncertain – the incident may just have been a traffic accident, despite Israeli claims that the Palestinian driver deliberately drove his car into an Israeli one.
The two attacks on Israelis on Tuesday follow three alleged attacks that took place on Monday in which 6 Israelis were wounded and three alleged Palestinian attackers were killed. Another Palestinian boy, a 13-year old child, was seriously wounded, and while the Israeli military claimed that the boy was involved in an attack against Israelis, he had no weapon and eyewitnesses contradicted this claim.
Following the two attacks on Tuesday, Israeli Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat declared a closure of all Palestinian areas in the city, and a lockdown on all of the Israeli-established border crossings through the Israeli Annexation Wall into the West Bank.
Barkat stated, "We shouldn't allow them to enter … the lives of the residents of Jerusalem are more important than anything else."
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon to plan more restrictive measures and crackdowns on the Palestinian civilian population of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza Strip.
While there has been an upsurge in violence in recent weeks, it is still largely Palestinian civilians who are the most impacted – more than 1400 have been wounded and 29 killed since October 1st. 4 Israelis have been killed and 25 wounded in that time period, all of them by Palestinian ‘lone wolf’ attackers.
The number of people killed and wounded in Israel during the past two weeks has been less than the average number of Palestinians killed and wounded in any given two-week period in the past year.
2 Israelis killed, 17 injured in two separate attacks in O.J
Two stabbing and car ramming attacks were carried out at separate locations in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. Two Israeli settlers were killed and several others were injured during the attacks.
A stabbing and shooting attack took place aboard a bus in Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem. According to Israeli police two suspects carried out the attack.
Israeli media sources said that two men got on an Egged line 78 bus in Armon Hanatziv and opened gunfire at passengers. Paramedics pronounced two persons dead on the scene. Four additional people were transported to hospital, one seriously wounded and 3 moderately wounded, likely with gunshot wounds.
Israeli police said that 16 people in total were wounded in the attack, the sources added.
In a separate attack in occupied Jerusalem, Israeli police claimed that a driver rammed his car into a bus stop, got out of his car and began stabbing pedestrians.
The Israeli medical sources pronounced one person dead on the scene and treated another person who suffered light injuries.
Police said that a total of five people were wounded in the second attack.
The attacks came shortly after another stabbing attack in Ra'anana city. In that attack, two Israelis were lightly wounded and the suspect was killed by passersby. A second attack occurred in Ra'anana some 90 minutes later, in which 4 Israelis were wounded. The suspect was then arrested.
The incidents came after 27 Palestinians were killed and 1400 others were injured during clashes with Israeli forces across the occupied Palestinian territories.
IOF soldiers have also launched last night a large-scale raid and arrest campaign in occupied Jerusalem. Ten Palestinian youths were reported arrested during the campaign.
300 Palestinians were detained in occupied Jerusalem in September including 16 women, 104 minors, and 21 students, a rights groups said.
Israeli media: Three murdered, dozens wounded in 5 attacks
Over a dozen wounded in two simultaneous attacks in Jerusalem's East Talpiot and Geula neighborhoods; in two Ra'anana attacks: 1 seriously hurt, 3 moderately and 1 lightly; fifth stabbing takes place near IKEA in northern city of Kiryat Ata.
Three people were murdered and dozens were wounded in five terror attacks in Jerusalem, Ra'anana and Kiryat Ata on Tuesday. One of the victims was idenified as Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky, 60.
Hamas praised the attacks, saying they are "a message to anyone who harms our holy places. We call to continue the intifada, which is the natural response to the world's silence."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his Security Cabinet at midday to decide on further steps to take in light of the ongoing terror attacks.
In Kiryat Ata, a northern city near Haifa, a terrorist stabbed at least one person outside IKEA. The attacker has been subdued, while the victim's was moderately wounded. Both stabber and victim are Jewish, but it remains unclear whether the stabbing was a nationalistic incident or a criminal one. Police were investigating the suspicion that the attacker wanted to stab an Arab, but mistook the nationality of his victim.
Simultaneous attacks in JerusalemThree were murdered and 17 others wounded in two simultaneous morning attacks in Jerusalem's East Talpiot and Geula neighborhoods.
Two terrorists - Baha Aliyan, 22, and Bilal Ranem, 23, both from Jabel Mukaber - boarded an Egged bus on Olei HaGardom Street in East Talpiot, a neighborhood also known as Armon HaNetziv, one armed with a gun and the other with a knife.
They started shooting and stabbing passengers while the bus kept moving, killing a man in his 60s and wounding ten others. One of the wounded, a man in his 40s, was evacuated in critical condition and was declared dead at the hospital.
Two others were seriously wounded - women aged around 60 and 40, who suffered stab wounds to their upper body. Two others were in moderate condition: A woman about 60 years old with gunshot wounds to her upper body and a man in his 30s. Three were lightly wounded, and two were suffering from shock.
A security guard at the scene was able to overpower one of them and shoot him. The terrorist then tried to get up and resume his attack, but the security guard shot him again.
The second terrorist locked the bus' doors in an attempt to stop security forces from boarding, as well as stopping passengers from fleeing. Policemen opened fire at him from outside the bus.
Aliyan was killed, while Ranem was wounded and neutralized.
Eye-witnesses said one of the terrorists took over the driver's seat in an attempt to kidnap the bus. Golan Cohen-Gabai, one of the eye-witnesses, said he used his car to block off the bus and stop the terrorist from taking it.
"Then he opened the doors and wanted to come at me with a knife. I closed the windows, so he ran back and returned with a gun.... I held him here for two minutes and then police forces arrived," he said.
Rubi Mahatbi, 18, was lightly wounded in the attack. "I took bus 78 to the city center. The two terrorists sat there and didn't look suspicion to me, but as soon as the bus started moving, the terrorist drew out a gun, yelled 'Allahu Akbar,' and shot a person as he came in my direction. I hid near the door and tried to escape. He drew a knife and started stabbing a military man. The second terrorist grabbed me and tried to attack me, but I hit him and was able to escape," he said.
"That moment, you feel fear and stress and you don't know what to do. I preferred running away rather than confronting him. I have bruises on my neck from his attempts to choke me. At that moment, all I was thinking about was I was either going to survive this or I die," he added.
An MDA paramedic who arrived at the scene of the attack described it as chaotic, saying gunfire was heard as rescue teams arrived. On Malkhei Yisrael Street in Geula, a terrorist drove a car into a bus stop, hitting two pedestrians - one of which, 60-year-old Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky, was killed and the other seriously wounded. The terrorist then left the vehicle and started repeatedly stabbing the two victims. A security guard who was nearby arrived at the scene of the attack and shot the terrorist, critically wounding him.
Magen David Adom said it provided treatment to eight people: One in moderate-to-serious condition with injuries to his upper body and limbs, one in moderate condition, one lightly wounded with bruises to his face, and five suffering from shock.
Moshe Shmueli was lightly wounded in the attack. "We can see what's happening in the country. It's an act from heaven that comes to awaken the people of Israel," he said.
"I wanted to take bus 59 and was waiting at the bus stop when all of a sudden a vehicle appeared and rammed into the bus stop with great force," Shmueli recounted. "I was sitting inside the bus stop while outside was an older man. It could've been a lot worse. I was near the terrorist who got out of the car - a giant man with hatred - and started hitting me and I immediately realized it wasn't an accident, but a terror attack. I left everything and ran. All of a sudden I heard gunfire and people telling me to run. I went into a house and the good people there treated me."
"We have to stop this entire situation," Shmueli added. "We can't put a policeman to protect each civilian, only the Torah can protect us."
The terrorist, identified as Alaa Abu Jamal, a resident of Jabel Mukaber in East Jerusalem who has Israeli citizenship, was an employee of Israeli phone company Bezeq, and was using a company car to commit the attack.
A statement issued by Bezeq said: "We just learned that a Bezeq employee was responsible for the terror attack in Jerusalem this morning on Malkhei Yisrael Street. At this point we do not have all of the details, but it is clear this is a serious incident.
"Bezeq, and all of its employees, scorns this heinous crime. Our hearts are with the victims and their families."
Abu Jamal is related to the two terrorists who committed the slaughter at the Har Nof synagogue in November 2014 - cousins Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal.
Wounded from both Jerusalem attacks were taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center and to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Karem.
Shaare Zedek received eight wounded: One of them was in critical condition and declared dead upon his arrival to the hospital; two were in serious condition, one of them already taken into operation; three were in moderate condition and two in light condition.
Hadassah Ein Karem received five wounded - two of them were the terrorists. One of the terrorists was declared dead, while the other was in serious condition. The other three wounded were the Jewish victims - one was critically wounded, one seriously wounded, and one light-to-moderately wounded.
Two attacks on main Ra'anana streetFour people were wounded in a stabbing attack at a bus stop outside the Beit Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center on Jerusalem Street in Ra'anana.
After stabbing his victims, the terrorist, an East Jerusalem resident in his late 20s, fled towards Ahuza Street, a major thoroughfare in the Sharon plains city, pursued by civilians. A driver passing by noticed the ongoing chase and hit the terrorist with his car. A taxi driver who was at the scene helped subdue the terrorist.
Large police forces who arrived at the scene arrested the terrorist, who was employed at the nearby Beit Loewenstein. He was taken to hospital in serious condition.
"We saw the terrorist stabbing a helpless older man who was standing at the bus stop. We immediately knew it was a terror attack," recounted two people working in one of the businesses in the commercial center, where the attack occurred.
"We immediately started calling out 'Terrorist! Terrorist!' He dropped his knife and started running towards the nearby Ahuza Street. We chased him and then he drew another knife, a smaller one, and kept trying to stab us," they continued.
"We called out to drivers to help us and then they hindered his escape, and we managed to catch him on Ahuza Street along with other people. He received quite a beating. Only after he was neutralized, he let go of the knife, and then the police came and arrested him," they said.
Other eye witnesses said the terrorist was wearing an orange vest.
At least one person was seriously wounded, suffering stab wounds to his upper body, including his neck, while the others were lightly-to-moderately hurt. The wounded were taken to the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba and the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikvah.
Earlier, one Israeli was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack in Ra'anana while waiting for the bus not far from the city hall on Ahuza Street.
A terrorist, resident of East Jerusalem, attempted to stab him. He fought off the terrorist and was hurt in the struggle. Other civilians came to his aid and helped him overpower the terrorist, who was lightly wounded.
Maden David Adom paramedics evacuated the wounded Israeli, 32, to the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba with stab wounds to his upper body. Ra'anana mayor Ze'ev Bielski, who spoke to the victim, Yair Ben Ezra, said Ben Ezra told him he suspected the stabber.
"He said, 'I saw there was something about him' - and that is why the stab wounds were likely not where the stabber wanted and he fought him and managed to come out in reasonable condition," Bielski told Ynet.
Ben Ezra was also waiting for the bus. "I was standing at the bus stop for bus 437 to Tel Aviv, reading the paper about all of the terror attacks," he recounted.
"I saw a strange man who was sweating. He seemed suspicion and he was holding a knife. All of a sudden he started stabbing me again and again. I pushed him to the ground with my left hand. I was lying on the ground for a minute and a half. He yelled 'Allahu Akbar.' He had a murderous look in his eyes. He stabbed me in the neck, at the back of the head and in my hand. My entire body hurt. I knew there was a mother and children nearby and I had to save them and that he must not stab them."
Large police forces from the Sharon plains district arrived at the scene following the attack.Following the attacks, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, holding him responsible for the attack.
"Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh has praised and glorified a 13-year-old Palestinian who set out with a butcher knife to murder Israeli children in a candy shop," she said.
"The blood of Israeli citizens is on the hands of Mahmoud Abbas and his colleagues who are inciting children to commit murder. The Palestinian Authority, instead of preventing violence, has become an incubator for fanatic terrorism which is striking daily at Israeli citizens."
Hotovely called on Israel's government to consider halting money transfers to the Palestinian Authority.
"The Foreign Ministry urges donor countries to use their influence to effect a cessation in violence and incitement by the Palestinian Authority," she added.
Overnight Monday, IDF and Judea and Samaria police forces arrested 15 wanted Palestinians in the West Bank, who are suspected of involvement in terror activity and violent rioting against civilians and security forces.
The arrested Palestinians, some of which are suspected of stone-throwing, were taken into questioning.
Tuesday's attacks are the latest incident in a monthlong wave of attacks, the worst spell of street violence for years, stirred in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.
Since the Rosh HaShana last month, five Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a shooting, a stoning and a series of stabbings.
At least 26 Palestinians been killed by Israeli fire, including 10 attackers and the rest in clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli troops. Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded in such confrontations.
On Monday, Palestinians carried out three stabbings in Jerusalem, leaving a teenage Israeli boy in critical condition.
The daily knife attacks have stoked concern of a new Palestinian uprising and though Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have appealed for calm, the violence shows no signs of abating.
Palestinian groups have declared a "Day of Rage" on Tuesday across the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The leaders of Israel's Arab community have called for a commercial strike in their towns and villages.
5 oct 2015
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) claimed Monday the arrest of a “Hamas cell” that was behind the Itamar shooting attack over the weekend during which an Israeli military officer and his wife were shot dead.
According to Israeli media sources, the cell constitutes of five persons who are all residents of the West Bank city of Nablus.
The five young men, including the cell leader and the two who fired at the Israelis, were nabbed over the weekend during an Israeli arrest campaign in the city, the sources added.
The leader of the group, according to the Israeli sources, was identified as Ragheb Ahmad Muhammed Alawi (37).
According to the Shin Bet, he recruited the others and gave them weapons to carry out the shooting attack.
All five were said to have been involved in other attacks as well, the sources claimed.
Another member of the group was arrested Sunday when undercover Israeli forces entered the hospital in Nablus where he was receiving care. Palestinians uploaded a video to the internet showing the violent arrest.
All the five suspects are affiliated to Hamas movement, the Shin Bit added.
Israeli analysts charged that the cell arrest is linked to the security coordination between Israeli and PA forces.
According to Israeli media sources, the cell constitutes of five persons who are all residents of the West Bank city of Nablus.
The five young men, including the cell leader and the two who fired at the Israelis, were nabbed over the weekend during an Israeli arrest campaign in the city, the sources added.
The leader of the group, according to the Israeli sources, was identified as Ragheb Ahmad Muhammed Alawi (37).
According to the Shin Bet, he recruited the others and gave them weapons to carry out the shooting attack.
All five were said to have been involved in other attacks as well, the sources claimed.
Another member of the group was arrested Sunday when undercover Israeli forces entered the hospital in Nablus where he was receiving care. Palestinians uploaded a video to the internet showing the violent arrest.
All the five suspects are affiliated to Hamas movement, the Shin Bit added.
Israeli analysts charged that the cell arrest is linked to the security coordination between Israeli and PA forces.
3 oct 2015
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A Palestinian man was shot to death by Israeli police after allegedly stabbing an armed Israeli, grabbing to death two Israelis and wounding two others in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The attacker was identified as Mohanned Shafiq Halabi, 19, from Al-Bireh town, near Ramallah.
The victims are reportedly all members of the same ultra-Orthodox family. A forty year old man was pronounced dead at the scene, while a woman was listed in critical condition in Hadassah medical center in Jerusalem.
A two year old was reportedly mildly injured, and was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
A Palestinian man was shot to death by Israeli police after allegedly stabbing an armed Israeli, grabbing to death two Israelis and wounding two others in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The attacker was identified as Mohanned Shafiq Halabi, 19, from Al-Bireh town, near Ramallah.
The victims are reportedly all members of the same ultra-Orthodox family. A forty year old man was pronounced dead at the scene, while a woman was listed in critical condition in Hadassah medical center in Jerusalem.
A two year old was reportedly mildly injured, and was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
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Following the attack, Israeli police stormed the Old City, ransacking shops and forcing Palestinians out of the area around the Lion's Gate, where the attack took place.
This assault comes after weeks of escalating attacks by the Israeli military and settlers in the Old City of Jerusalem, specifically targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site of Islam.
Palestinians under age 50 have been barred from the area this entire week, as the Jewish festival of Sukkot, commemorating seven days of harvest and remembering the years that Jews spent wandering in the desert after escaping slavery in Egypt.
Following the attack, Israeli police stormed the Old City, ransacking shops and forcing Palestinians out of the area around the Lion's Gate, where the attack took place.
This assault comes after weeks of escalating attacks by the Israeli military and settlers in the Old City of Jerusalem, specifically targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site of Islam.
Palestinians under age 50 have been barred from the area this entire week, as the Jewish festival of Sukkot, commemorating seven days of harvest and remembering the years that Jews spent wandering in the desert after escaping slavery in Egypt.
