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September 29, 2017 | 9 Tishrei 5778
Vol. 14, Iss. 38
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Palestinian with Work Permit Murders 3 Security Guards in Terror Shooting near J’slm Hamas praised the assault as a 'new chapter' in the fight against attempts to 'Judaize Jerusalem'
A chorus of condemnations came pouring in from across the Israeli political spectrum on Tuesday after a deadly shooting attack at the Har Adar settlement near Jerusalem, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others blaming the attack on "systematic incitement" among Palestinian political and religious leaders. (Photo Credit: The Daily Wire)
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chorus of condemnations came pouring in from across the Israeli political spectrum on Tuesday after a deadly shooting attack at the Har Adar settlement near Jerusalem, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others blaming the attack on "systematic incitement" among Palestinian political and religious leaders, as was reported by i24 News. "This murderous attack is the result of – inter alia – systematic incitement by the Palestinian Authority and other elements and I expect Abu Mazen, the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, to condemn it and not attempt to justify it," Netanyahu said at the start of a weekly Cabinet meeting. "Security forces will continue to take action against incitement and terrorism as they have been doing night and day and we, of course, will finish the investigation of the incident and will discuss together the next steps," he said, according to an i24 News report, adding that work permits granted to the terrorist's extended family would be revoked and his home demolished. The attack came as President Trump's specially appointed peace envoy Jason Greenblatt arrived for a visit
to the region to advance negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. According to a TPS report, Israel Border Police said the terrorist who was later identified as 37-year-old Namer Mahmoud Ahmed Jamal, a father of four and a day laborer from nearby Bait Surik, possessed a work permit enabling him to enter Har Adar. Jamal had aroused the suspicions of the security coordinator there, and opened fire with a pistol, killing Border Policeman Solomon Gavriyah, 20, and security guards Youssef Ottman, 25, from Abu Ghosh and Or Arish, 25, from Har Adar. TPS also reported that MDA paramedic Nir Buzaglo said, “When I got to the scene I saw four men in their twenties and thirties suffering from gunshot wounds. We did an initial triage and one 32 year old man was conscious suffering gunshot wounds to his stomach. We gave him lifesaving firstaid and evacuated him to the hospital in serious condition. The other three men were unconscious, not breathing and had no pulse, also suffering from gunshot wounds to their upper bodies. We examined them but they did not show any signs of life.” According to the TPS report, Har Adar Council head Chen Filibovitch said, “The quick response by security
officials prevented the terrorist from entering Har Adar and prevented a far worse incident. Let me stress that this incident did not happen inside Har Adar, but rather at the workers’ entrance to the town. Police and Border Police are here sweeping the community and checking things out and schools and kindergartens in Har Adar are operating normally. Dozens of workers come into Har Adar every day, we know them and have never had any problems.”
"Security forces will continue to take action against incitement and terrorism as they have been doing night and day and we, of course, will finish the investigation of the incident and will discuss together the next steps" – Benjamin Netanyahu Local resident Itzhak Rabihiya told TPS that “Every day at about 7:00 security forces and private security guards (hired and paid for by local residents) open the gate for Arab and Palestinian workers who work here in the village. Unfortunately one of the workers shot three security guards and
a Border Police soldier. “The whole village is shocked, we have a very good relationship with Palestinian workers who work here – of course they come here after a security check. This is a very sad moment. We live in an unbalanced area – although for 20 years we have lived together and thought we were secure, we see today that there is no place we are secure.” Palestinian media reports that the IDF has stormed the village of Beit Sureik, near Ramallah, the attacker’s home town. Fatah said Israeli “occupation” forces are to blame for the attack. Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad praised the attack, according to the TPS report. Daoud Shehab, head of the Islamic Jihad’s media office said, “The Jerusalem operation embodies the living conscience of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people, as well as rearranging the national priorities that have been mixed up and scattered over the power struggles and political acrimony… it is a practical response to the occupations actions on al-Aqsa.” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem: said,“The Jerusalem operation is a new episode in the Jerusalem uprising and a confirmation from the youth that it will continue to fight for the full freedom of the people and the land.”
Hamas added: ‘The operation rejects the logic of begging for rights through international institutions. Our people will preserve their rights and sanctities with their own blood and spirit… This is confirmation that the natural relationship with the occupation is conflict, and it cannot be a relationship of coexistence. This operation proves that all attempts to change the identity of Jerusalem will not pass, and that all the efforts of the occupation to falsify the facts will not change the fact that Jerusalem is Arab and Palestinian, and that our people will fight until the end to liberate it.” Munir Al-Jagoub, the head of the Fatah media office said, “Israel must be well aware of the consequences of continuing its push towards the option of violence, the policy of house demolitions, the forced displacement of Jerusalemites, and the successive incursions by the settlers’ flocks to the al-Aqsa Mosque fortresses, reinforced with their forces day and night since 1967.”
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