Israel – A Knife-wielding Palestinians killed a woman and wounded three other Israelis, including a soldier, in two separate attacks on Monday, police said, in widening violence stoked by tensions over a Jerusalem holy site.
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The first incident, in which a Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded the soldier at a Tel Aviv train station, brought bloodshed to the Israeli commercial capital that has largely been spared since a Palestinian revolt ended in 2005.
Police identified the suspected assailant, who was arrested, as a resident of the Palestinian town of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
A police spokesman said that hours later, a Palestinian stormed out of a car to stab three people outside the Jewish settlement of Alon Shvut in the West Bank, killing the woman. The attacker was shot and wounded by a guard.
The Islamic Jihad later claimed responsibility for the attack.
The incident occurred meters away from the location where three Israeli teens — Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-Ad Shaer — were kidnapped and then killed in June.
Israeli-Palestinian tensions have festered over access to a Jerusalem compound housing Islam’s third holiest site and where biblical Jewish temples once stood.
Stone-throwing protests have also erupted in several Arab towns in Israel since Saturday, when police killed an Arab youth who assaulted them.
There was no immediate Palestinian comment after the attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking in parliament after the Tel Aviv assault said “terror … is being directed at all parts of the country for a simple reason: the terrorists, the inciters, want to drive us from everywhere.”
“As far as they are concerned, we should not be in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or anywhere. I can promise you one thing – they will not succeed. We will continue to fight terror … and we will defeat it together,” he said.
Five days ago, a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians in central Jerusalem, the second such incident of its kind in as many weeks, killing two Israelis. Police shot the driver dead.
If the terrorist was not killed, leave him in pool of blood at the side of the road to slowly and painfully ebb away. At the same time broadcast a live video feed of his last few hours, hopefully he will suffer for that long, to a screen in the center of Hevron.
Bde for the woman. Refuah shlama to the injured
During the last 3 years, the government has turned a blind eye to Arab terrorism and continues to do so due to pressure from the left hoping that the problem will go away by itself.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking in parliament after the Tel Aviv assault said “terror … is being directed at all parts of the country for a simple reason: the terrorists, the inciters, want to drive us from everywhere.” Dear PM Netanyahu, the terrorists continue to murder Jews because they know your government is very weak. ‘Meow.’
This photo sums up the entirety of Jewish history for the past thousands of years. Not only in the diaspora , but even in our own homeland now after decades of statehood Jewish blood soaks the earth. The Arabs have discovered a new way to strike fear and death into the Jewish heartland; and I believe it is easier to fend off rockets than it is the hand of Yishmael at every Jewish throat. Force will help — perhaps a little bit — but we need prayer so that the mercy of Hashem will destroy our enemies. .
How about some rich Jewish billionaires donate armoured cars and buses for these residents, so that they don’t have to be at the mercy of savages who can kill them whenever they like.