Kiryat Arba, Israel -A 13-year-old Israeli girl was murdered Thursday morning by a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed her in her bed in the community of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron.
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The terrorist breached the community’s security fence just before 9 a.m. and entered the home of the Ariel family, stabbing the sleeping daughter, Hallel Yaffa, multiple times in her bed. Hallel, an eighth-grader, died of her wounds soon afterward.
The terrorist, 17-year-old Mohammed Tarayra from the nearby Palestinian town of Bani Na’im, east of Hebron, was killed by security forces at the scene.
A 31-year-old local security volunteer who attempted to subdue the terrorist was also stabbed, as well as shot inadvertently by Israeli security forces. His wounds are moderate to severe.
“My daughter was sleeping, calm and peaceful, and a terrorist just got into her bed and murdered her,” Hallel’s mother, Rina, told Israeli media, weeping.
“We received a call about a terror attack in Kiryat Arba, and we arrived there and saw two wounded victims, including a girl who was about 14 or 15 years old,” Magen David Adom paramedic Devorah Aviad told Tazpit Press Service (TPS). “She was very seriously wounded from a number of injuries in the center of her body.”
“Security officials saw movement on the fence in the neighborhood of Harsina, we recognized that someone passed the fence,” a security official told TPS news. “Security officials of the neighborhood arrived, recognized the terrorist next to the home and inside the house we found the girl stabbed.”
Hallel Yaffa Ariel was rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem where she later died of her wounds.
The second victim, in moderate to severe condition, was transferred to the trauma center at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center where he is being treated for gunshot wounds in both the upper body and legs, the hospital announced.
Since the attack, the village of Bani Na’im has been placed under quarantine.
“In the coming hours, the IDF is preparing to carry out a full closure on the village of Bani Na’im where the terrorist who carried out the terrorist attack in Kiryat Arba came from,” the Israeli military announced. “Additionally, IDF forces are currently operating in the village and entering the house of the terrorist for the purposes of investigating.”
“We are deeply hurt and share the pain of the Ariel family,” said the local Hebron Council in a statement following the attack, placing the blame on the Palestinian Authority. “We will rise up stronger, resolute and with faith that justice will prevail.”
The victim was related to Uri Ariel, Israel’s minister of agriculture and rural development, who tweeted: “Arab terror has struck our family, but the response must be national. Dettering terrorists, redoubling building and planting in Judea and Samaria, and applying Israeli sovereignty to Area C.”
These terrorists are savages from the jungle, who must all be wiped out, like the scum that they are. Also, there has to be better security at these settlements. The security fence, when breached, should have set off an alarm. We’ve seen these incidents time and time again, including the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, two weeks ago, where the attackers also breached a security fence.
hy”d no words to describe the sadness i feel. such a beautiful and innocent girl, slaughtered in her sleep. i have not read or heard about this terrorist attack in mainstream media. when will we learn that our blood will always be cheap???
in addition to the planned demolition, israel should release a den of pigs into the village of this barbarian and should NOT RETURN THE BODY for burial. returning the body for burial has fulfilled their mission. instead, it should be buried in a field of the unknown, preferably where pigs are being bred
What a horrible tragedy. One of the lessons we learn from this, is that better security must be established in the settlements as well as in every house a Yid lives anywhere in the world. For this piece of dirt to so easily get into a home and kill an innocent girl is a shame.
This village should be torched and all the residents sent to live in Gaza.
Why do these families raise their children in such dangerous areas? We all know that the Arabs are savage and bloodthirsty people so what makes living in Chevron more important than your own child’s life?!
The answer is that they are following the misguided shitta of Tzvi Yehuda Kook and his students who preached that living in these dangerous areas is part of the “obligatory” war to take over the Land of Israel. And he said that just as any war is dangerous so too it is permissible to raise ones family in an area of danger knowing that family members will be killed in this war. Very misguided. And very sad to see the results.
Oy,Nebach another Korban. Poor girl,poor mother.
There is no sensible reason for Jews to live among bloodthirsty Arabs. Anyone who encourages and supports the Misnachlim have Jewish blood on their hands.
Pikuach Nefesh comes before every Mitzvah in the Torah. For a Jew to live in one of the most dangerous places on planet earth goes against everything the Torah tells us.
Now is not the time to tell the parents and community that their lives are in danger. Cry with the parents and feel the pain. May they be comforted. May moshiach come quickly