“If you carry a knife and you want to kill… you won’t go back home”, Barkat said to journalists at the scene of the bus attack.
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Palestinian men armed with knives & a gun killed no less than three people & wounded several others in a string of assaults in Jerusalem & near Tel Aviv on Tues., cops officers stated, on a “Day of Rage” declared by Palestinian groups.
Israel’s internal security minister says the bodies of dead Palestinian attackers should not be returned to their families for burial. In Jerusalem, two Palestinains conducted a deadly attack on a public bus, killing two Israelis, whilst a separate attack in the capital saw another Israeli killed. Police attacked the assailants, killing one and injuring the other. The attacker was reportedly shot dead.
The Jerusalem attacks, coupled with a pair of stabbing attacks in the central Israeli city of Raanana that wounded five, including one seriously, came in rapid succession.
A Palestinian has been killed in clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the latest such incident in almost two weeks of violence. The army said its troops fired on a man who tried to throw a petrol bomb at them.
All together, the attacks made Tuesday the bloodiest day in an escalating wave of violence that has shocked the country and created fresh tensions between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs.
Last week, an Israeli Jew in southern Israel attacked four Palestinians while they were working on a construction site. In addition to shouting to draw the attention of people nearby and trying to kick the assailant in the groin, the civilian should use his forearm to block a knife thrust, said Graber, not his palm, and move towards the attacker to try to wrest the knife away. The violence erupted last month over the Jewish New Year, fueled by rumors that Israel was plotting to take over Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site.
Seven Israelis and 27 Palestinians, including nine alleged attackers and eight children, have died in nearly two weeks of street attacks and security crackdowns.
Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he will not allow any change to the status quo under which Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim prayer is banned, but his assurances have done little to quell alarm among Muslims across the region. One of the killers was on the payroll of Bezek, Israel’s biggest telecom company.
“Today we will decide on a series of additional aggressive steps in our war against terrorists and inciters”, Netanyahu said in a speech to parliament. Shops have been selling pepper spray and other items that might be used in defense. The terrorist’s partner attacked a second Israeli, inflicting major knife wounds. They were given 48 hours to appeal to decision before Israel’s High Court.
In a fifth incident on Tuesday, an Israeli Jewish man stabbed another Jew at an Ikea store in northern Israel believing he was an Arab, in what appears to be a failed revenge attack.
Israeli paramedics said he had been seriously hurt. The Israeli was moderately wounded and the attacker was apprehended and beaten by local residents before he was taken to a hospital.
The main Palestinian factions, including the Western-backed Fatah movement and the militant Hamas group, declared a “Day of Rage” on Tuesday across the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Leaders of Israel’s Arab minority called for a commercial strike in their towns, one of which, Sakhnin, hosted a pro-Palestinian rally attended by thousands of people on Tuesday.
Addressing the crowd, legislator Ahmed Tibi said the Netanyahu government was “playing with fire when it comes to al-Aqsa”.
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The now-daily stabbings have raised speculation that Palestinians could be embarking on another uprising or intifada, reflecting a new generation’s frustrations over their veteran leadership’s failure to achieve statehood.
