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Knife Jihad Against Jews Continues As Abbas Tries To Unite Palestinian Factions In Struggle Against Israel
The Palestinian Arab wave of terror against Israeli Jews continued over the weekend.
Early Friday afternoon, a Palestinian Arab assailant stabbed an Israeli Jew near a commercial center north of Jerusalem. A short while later, two shooting attacks were reported in the Hebron area. At 4.40 PM, two Israeli teens (ages 16 and 18) were shot at near the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Ma’arat HaMachpela) close to the Jewish quarter in Hebron. Both of them were injured in the attack. Two hours later, an Israeli soldier was critically injured in a shooting attack near Hebron. The terrorist was apprehended.
In another incident, a 72-year-old Arab woman of Hebron was killed when she drove her car into a group of IDF soldiers in a closed area near the Jewish quarter in the city. The woman is the widow of a Palestinian terrorist who was killed during the first Intifada. Her family later claimed that she was executed in cold blood while driving to a gas station, but IDF soldiers found a large knife in her back. Sources in Israeli security reported that the woman had recently said she wanted to attack Israeli soldiers.
On Sunday, a young Palestinian Arab woman tried to stab a security guard at the entrance of the ultra-Orthodox town of Beitar Illit southwest of Jerusalem. The guard asked the woman to identify herself and checked her ID. The woman then suddenly pulled a big knife out of her purse and tried to stab the guard, who shot and seriously wounded the woman. The incident was recorded by a CCTV camera.
Also on Sunday, four Israelis were wounded in a vehicular attack near the Tapuah junction in Samaria. The Arab terrorist rammed his car into a group of young Jewish hitchhikers at the junction; two of them were seriously injured. IDF soldiers who saw what happened shot and killed the terrorist. The injured Israelis were all students of the Yeshiva in Alon Moreh in Samaria.
Later on Sunday, an Israeli man was stabbed by two Palestinian Arabs in the Palestinian village of Nabi Iyas in northern Samaria. The man was severely injured, but managed to drive his car to the Jewish village Alfei Menashe, where security guards saved his life by giving him first aid.
During Sunday night, terrorists in Gaza launched a rocket at the southern part of Israel. There were no reports of damage or injuries. A short while later, IAF warplanes retaliated by bombing a Hamas target in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said the target was a training facility of the Izz a-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
On Monday, the Knife Jihad continued. A Palestinian Arab woman was shot dead by security guards at the entrance of the Jewish village of Alfei Menashe in Samaria (northern West Bank). The woman approached the security guards while brandishing a knife. When she refused to obey orders to stop and drop the knife, the guards first fired into the air; and when that didn’t help, she was shot dead. The woman left a note to her family on her body that said she had decided to act ‘to defend her homeland.’
The Middle East expert of Israeli TV Channel Arutz 10, Tzvi Yachezkieli, reported yesterday that PA President Mahmoud Abbas is now secretly trying to form a national unity government with Hamas in Gaza. The move is meant to form a united Palestinian front against Israel.
Abbas was in Cairo yesterday where he urged President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to use his influence to stop the Israeli ‘provocations and assaults’ against the El-Aqsa mosque. The PA president continues to claim that Israel intends to change the status quo on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, despite an agreement between Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel that the continuation of the status quo on the site will be monitored 24/7 by a CCTV camera.
Abbas reportedly asked the Egyptian president to help with the formation of a Palestinian unity government. There were unconfirmed reports that Sisi would be willing to arrange a reconciliation meeting between the PA president and his ousted Fatah rival Mohammad Dahlan, who lives in exile. Dahlan has good ties with Sisi and enjoys the support of many Palestinian Arabs in Gaza.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/knife-jihad-against-jews-continues-as-abbas-tries-to-unite-palestinian-factions-in-struggle-against-israel/
