Mother and Baby Hurt in Gush Etzion Rock Attack; Suspect Nabbed
Shortly after the attack, police arrested a 15-year-old from Arab Takua as a suspect in the attack. More arrests to follow.By Cynthia Blank
First Publish: 10/1/2015, 2:45 PM
A group of Arab rock-throwers attacked Israeli vehicles on Thursday near the Tekoa community of Gush Etzion.
A mother and her six-month-old son were lightly injured by the rocks. They were treated on site and did not require hospitalization. Two additional Israelis also suffered shock.
Shortly after the attack, Hevron Police arrested a 15-year-old from the Arab village Takua as a suspect in the attack. More arrests are expected to follow.
Moshe Marom, the father of the family, who had been driving the attacked vehicle, was not hurt, but described his fear during the attack.
"The [Arab] children had just gotten out of school and when I passed near them, they threw rocks and cement blocks. They just blew up our car," he recounted.
"I had three children in the back - a six-year-old boy, a three-year-old toddler and a baby half a year old. Miraculously nothing happened."
"I was afraid for my life," he added, "but I managed to keep control with both hands on the wheel and drove on."
Arab rock attacks against Jews have become increasingly common in Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria, particularly since the start of the High Holiday season in mid-September.
On Rosh Hashana eve, Jerusalem resident Alexander Levlovich, 64, was killed after losing his control of his car when Arab terrorists pelted the vehicle with a barrage of rocks.
The Israeli government has vowed to crack down on rock-throwers, including introducing legislation setting a minimum four-year jail time for such terrorists as well as other deterrents.
In response to this latest attack, Gush Etzion Regional Council head David Perl urged the government to "take a firm and uncompromising hand against rock-throwers, until safety and calm is returned to inhabitants of the region."
"While Abbas is spreading lies and encouraging violence and terror on the UN stage his words are translated to the field with rock terrorism that grows and grows," Perl charged. "Only a miracle saved the lives of family members attacked near Tekoa today."
Mother Wrestles Baby Son from Hands of Arab 'Kidnapper'
Mother tells of terrifying moment Arab man on a scooter tried to snatch her baby as she prepared to place him in her car in Jerusalem.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 9/7/2015, 9:35 AM
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An Arab man on a scooter attempted to abduct a year-old Jewish baby who stood next to his mother on a Jerusalem sidewalk, the mother said. The Moriah region police is investigating the incident, which took place Saturday evening.
"It was terrible, I was in shock,” the mother – Yaheli Badihi – told the newspaper Yediot Aharonot.
Yaheli, her husband Tzod and their son Zohar live in the community of Keshet, in the Golan Heights. At week's end they drove to Jerusalem to visit Tzod's grandmother, who lives in Ahuzat Beit Hakerem in Jerusalem.
When they were about to go back home, Tzod was still in his grandmother's home, and Yaheli went outside with the baby and began to place his stroller in the boot of their car.
"I put the stuff on the sidewalk, next to me, and Zohar sat on the sidewalk right next to me, with his feet on the road,” she recounted. “I was putting in the equipment and I got a little tied up with the for a moment stroller. Suddenly I heard Zohar screaming in an unfamiliar way. I turned around and I saw someone on a scooter with one foot on the vehicle and one foot on the asphalt.”
The scooter driver was leaning forward, she said, and had caught a hold of her son. “He turned in our direction, caught Zohar by the armpit and lifted him up from the sidewalk. I tried to pull him away from him and I couldn't, so I hugged him from the back and pulled him hard in my direction. He actually had Zohar in his hands.
"Luckily for me he was leaning forward, so he was unable to bring all of his strength to bear. I let out a crazy scream, and people turned around and looked. When he realized he didn't stand a chance, he said in a heavy Arabic accent, 'I thought it was a doll,' and guffawed and escaped.”
The couple called the police and began driving home toward the Golan Heights. A squad car from the Wadi Ara region was sent to meet them halfway on Highway 6, and they gave testimony. They were then asked to give testimony at the local police station, too, before they continued home.
Watch: Baby in Stroller Is Also a Target for Jerusalem Arabs
Another shocking video from Old City shows Muslims brutalizing a Jewish father – this time, the dad was pushing a baby stroller.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 10/1/2015, 3:28 PM
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 10/1/2015, 3:28 PM
Following a disturbing video that showed a Muslim mob taunting a hassidic Jewish father and his terrified sons, a second video has emerged showing Muslim humiliation of a Jewish father as he walks through the alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City. The somewhat blurry video shows at least two Jews carrying Sukkot lulav packages and was shot during the Sukkot holiday.
The video shows an Arab man forcefully kicking a man in haredi garb in the hip, as the man was pushing a baby stroller. The attack is documented in the initial seconds of the video.
The spokesman for the Jerusalem Police confirmed to Arutz Sheva that the suspected attacker was arrested Wednesday.
It has been circulating on social networks and appears to have been filmed and uploaded by Arabs on the first or second day of the Sukkot holiday. The video has received over 170,000 views – a huge number in Israeli terms.
A previously published video, taken Monday morning, on the first day of the Jewish festival Sukkot, shows mobs of Muslims harassing Jews on their way to pray at the Kotel (Western Wall).
The footage shows one terrified young boy crying to his dad "abba abba!" as the mob converges on them.
Many viewers have remarked that the footage is reminiscent of scenes in which Germans taunted Jews in the streets of 1930s Germany. And yet, it is from the Jewish state, which was supposedly established precisely to make scenes like this impossible.
IDF rings Palestinian villages in search of terrorists who killed Israeli couple
IDF deploys 4 battalions to West Bank after deadly shooting attack
The Israeli couple killed were identified as Eitam and Na'ama Henkin from the West Bank settlement of Neria.
A Palestinian terrorist shot dead an Israeli couple in an attack on their car near Nablus on Thursday night, between Elon Moreh and Itamar.
Their four young children survived without injury in the bullet-riddled vehicle.
Magen David Adom paramedics and soldiers pulled the children out of the car near the Palestinian village of Beit Furik.
The boys, aged four months, four years, seven and nine years, saw their parents shot dead in front of them.
The victims were identified as Eitam, 31, and Na'ama Henkin, 30, from the settlement of Neria, in the Binyamin region of the West Bank. Eitam’s mother Channa, who is from the United States, heads the Nishmat seminary for women in Jerusalem.
The couple will be buried in Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuchot cemetery
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had just finished addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, told reporters, “This is a difficult day for the State of Israel."
“We are witness to an especially heinous and shocking murder in which parents were murdered, leaving four young orphans.
“My heart is with the children, all of our hearts are with the children and the family,” said Netanyahu who held telephone consultations with the defense minister, the IDF chief of staff and the head of the Shin Bet.
IDF soldiers ringed the northern West Bank village of Huwara as well as other townships near Nablus in search of the perpetrators of the attack. At numerous locations in Judea and Samaria settlers blocked roads to protest the killings.
MDA paramedic Boaz Malka said, “It was a very difficult scene. We saw a car in the middle of the road, and next to it, a man in his 30s lay on the ground with gunshot wounds on his upper body. A woman sat inside the car, with severe wounds on her upper body. They had no vital signs and to our sorrow we had to pronounce them dead at the scene.”
It remains unclear whether the shots were fired from a moving vehicle, or whether terrorists laying in ambush had targeted the car.
Their four young children survived without injury in the bullet-riddled vehicle.
Magen David Adom paramedics and soldiers pulled the children out of the car near the Palestinian village of Beit Furik.
The boys, aged four months, four years, seven and nine years, saw their parents shot dead in front of them.
The victims were identified as Eitam, 31, and Na'ama Henkin, 30, from the settlement of Neria, in the Binyamin region of the West Bank. Eitam’s mother Channa, who is from the United States, heads the Nishmat seminary for women in Jerusalem.
The couple will be buried in Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuchot cemetery
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had just finished addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, told reporters, “This is a difficult day for the State of Israel."
“We are witness to an especially heinous and shocking murder in which parents were murdered, leaving four young orphans.
“My heart is with the children, all of our hearts are with the children and the family,” said Netanyahu who held telephone consultations with the defense minister, the IDF chief of staff and the head of the Shin Bet.
IDF soldiers ringed the northern West Bank village of Huwara as well as other townships near Nablus in search of the perpetrators of the attack. At numerous locations in Judea and Samaria settlers blocked roads to protest the killings.
MDA paramedic Boaz Malka said, “It was a very difficult scene. We saw a car in the middle of the road, and next to it, a man in his 30s lay on the ground with gunshot wounds on his upper body. A woman sat inside the car, with severe wounds on her upper body. They had no vital signs and to our sorrow we had to pronounce them dead at the scene.”
It remains unclear whether the shots were fired from a moving vehicle, or whether terrorists laying in ambush had targeted the car.
There were no eyewitnesses besides the children. Security personnel hope to be able to speak to them to piece together an account of the shooting.
“A large-scale search is under way,” a senior security source said. “Our forces know how to track down the perpetrators.”
The IDF had no concrete intelligence alerts for this area prior to the attack; only a general security alert was in place.
The army believes that the same terrorist cell that struck on Thursday may have been responsible for an attack nearby by on August 30, when an Israeli civilian sustained a gunshot wound to the hand in a drive-by shooting.
A gunman in a vehicle fired shots at the driver at the Jit junction, before speeding away. An IDF guard at the nearby Efraim Territorial Division base evacuated the man to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba. The army said the man was lightly wounded.
On Thursday, Hamas praised the “heroic terror attack” and called for more “quality attacks.”
“Zionists will pay the price for Netanyahu’s criminal policies everywhere,” the group said.
Many on the Right blamed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday for the attack, after he said the PA is no longer committed to upholding the Oslo Accords.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said, “This murderous terror attack this evening is a clear continuation of the incitement against the State of Israel and its civilians, and repeated attempts to carry out terror attacks.
“The war against terrorism requires determination from us, a steel hand, and patience. We are fighting against a bloodthirsty relentless enemy, and with great sorrow we sometimes absorb losses on the way. At this time, the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) are pursuing the murderers.
“We will pursue them and we will not be silent until we place our hands on the murderers, and those who sent them.”
The IDF ordered four battalions to join existing forces in the West Bank after the terrorist attack, following a security evaluation by the General Staff on Thursday night.
The first of the extra units will begin arriving on Friday to assist in searches for the terrorists and ensure IDF control of the area, and prevent a deterioration of the security situation.
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the chairman of Bayit Yehudi, said Abbas’s “call to battle was implemented tonight in Israel, and it is red from blood.
“A nation whose leaders encourage murder will never have a state, and that needs to be said clearly. The time of talk is over; this is the time for actions,” Bennett said.
Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, also from Bayit Yehudi, also said the terrorist attack was a result of Abbas’s speech, saying the deaths are his responsibility alone and he should be brought to justice.
“The response to the terrible murder must be annexation of Area C and expanding construction in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria,” Ariel said.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) said Abbas “incites and the area is incited – that is how the murderous system works, which drives murderous terrorism in Judea and Samaria. Such events are further proof that the Palestinians do not want peace, only hatred, and do not want a discourse, just incitement to hatred.”
Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) said: “Twenty-four hours after the violent speech of the mass murderer Abbas, a husband and wife were killed in Israel. With every word, Abbas encourages the murder of Jews... He inherited the way of terrorism from Arafat and continues his criminal way of cutting off innocent lives.”
Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid called the attack a “direct continuation of Abbas’s policy of incitement and lies.
“You cannot say you’re promoting peace and accept terrorist acts and murder of innocent people, parents killed in front of their small children,” Lapid said. “The wretched terrorists must know that they are not immune and they will pay a heavy price for their actions... In this war, there can be no compromises.”
The Almagor Terrorism Victims Association said, “The hands that murdered the parents are of a Palestinian terrorist cell, but the mouth is of Abbas and his people in a series of speeches and interviews from New York to the Mukata [presidential headquarters in Ramallah], threatening to break security agreements.”
“When the commander of the Palestinian forces openly threatens reduced security for Israeli citizens and Fatah holds demonstrations against Israel and burns Israeli flags, the message is clear: Harm Jews,” Almagor chairman Meir Indor said.
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) said the murders are “despicable and very painful.”
“At this point, we have to allow the IDF and security forces to act swiftly and determinedly to catch the murderers, to bring them to justice and to do what is necessary in the field,” Herzog said.
MK Ksenia Svetlova (Zionist Union) said after the attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “big on talk and small in actions,” and called on him to “stop bragging and start acting to eradicate terrorism and strengthen security for all Israelis and to bring a diplomatic agreement that will not allow the creation of a binational state that will endanger Jewish lives.”
The Joint List did not respond to a request for comment.
“A large-scale search is under way,” a senior security source said. “Our forces know how to track down the perpetrators.”
The IDF had no concrete intelligence alerts for this area prior to the attack; only a general security alert was in place.
The army believes that the same terrorist cell that struck on Thursday may have been responsible for an attack nearby by on August 30, when an Israeli civilian sustained a gunshot wound to the hand in a drive-by shooting.
A gunman in a vehicle fired shots at the driver at the Jit junction, before speeding away. An IDF guard at the nearby Efraim Territorial Division base evacuated the man to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba. The army said the man was lightly wounded.
On Thursday, Hamas praised the “heroic terror attack” and called for more “quality attacks.”
“Zionists will pay the price for Netanyahu’s criminal policies everywhere,” the group said.
Many on the Right blamed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday for the attack, after he said the PA is no longer committed to upholding the Oslo Accords.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said, “This murderous terror attack this evening is a clear continuation of the incitement against the State of Israel and its civilians, and repeated attempts to carry out terror attacks.
“The war against terrorism requires determination from us, a steel hand, and patience. We are fighting against a bloodthirsty relentless enemy, and with great sorrow we sometimes absorb losses on the way. At this time, the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) are pursuing the murderers.
“We will pursue them and we will not be silent until we place our hands on the murderers, and those who sent them.”
The IDF ordered four battalions to join existing forces in the West Bank after the terrorist attack, following a security evaluation by the General Staff on Thursday night.
The first of the extra units will begin arriving on Friday to assist in searches for the terrorists and ensure IDF control of the area, and prevent a deterioration of the security situation.
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the chairman of Bayit Yehudi, said Abbas’s “call to battle was implemented tonight in Israel, and it is red from blood.
“A nation whose leaders encourage murder will never have a state, and that needs to be said clearly. The time of talk is over; this is the time for actions,” Bennett said.
Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, also from Bayit Yehudi, also said the terrorist attack was a result of Abbas’s speech, saying the deaths are his responsibility alone and he should be brought to justice.
“The response to the terrible murder must be annexation of Area C and expanding construction in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria,” Ariel said.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) said Abbas “incites and the area is incited – that is how the murderous system works, which drives murderous terrorism in Judea and Samaria. Such events are further proof that the Palestinians do not want peace, only hatred, and do not want a discourse, just incitement to hatred.”
Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) said: “Twenty-four hours after the violent speech of the mass murderer Abbas, a husband and wife were killed in Israel. With every word, Abbas encourages the murder of Jews... He inherited the way of terrorism from Arafat and continues his criminal way of cutting off innocent lives.”
Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid called the attack a “direct continuation of Abbas’s policy of incitement and lies.
“You cannot say you’re promoting peace and accept terrorist acts and murder of innocent people, parents killed in front of their small children,” Lapid said. “The wretched terrorists must know that they are not immune and they will pay a heavy price for their actions... In this war, there can be no compromises.”
The Almagor Terrorism Victims Association said, “The hands that murdered the parents are of a Palestinian terrorist cell, but the mouth is of Abbas and his people in a series of speeches and interviews from New York to the Mukata [presidential headquarters in Ramallah], threatening to break security agreements.”
“When the commander of the Palestinian forces openly threatens reduced security for Israeli citizens and Fatah holds demonstrations against Israel and burns Israeli flags, the message is clear: Harm Jews,” Almagor chairman Meir Indor said.
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) said the murders are “despicable and very painful.”
“At this point, we have to allow the IDF and security forces to act swiftly and determinedly to catch the murderers, to bring them to justice and to do what is necessary in the field,” Herzog said.
MK Ksenia Svetlova (Zionist Union) said after the attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “big on talk and small in actions,” and called on him to “stop bragging and start acting to eradicate terrorism and strengthen security for all Israelis and to bring a diplomatic agreement that will not allow the creation of a binational state that will endanger Jewish lives.”
The Joint List did not respond to a request for comment.
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