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Three Israelis identified in Palestinian terror attack
The fatalities in Wednesday’s (2nd) terror attack were all Jerusalem residents. Batsheva Unterman, 33, who worked in a kindergarten, was killed when the car she was driving was crushed by a terrorist’s bulldozer. Her baby daughter, Efrat, was evacuated from the car just before the vehicle was hit, as the mother undid the seat belt and handed the baby to a passerby. She did not have time to release her own seat belt. Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, 54, the mother of three children, worked as a teacher in a school for the blind. Jean Relevy, 68, a father of three was an air-conditioner technician.
The funeral of Jean Relevy, was held at noon on Thursday (3rd) at the Har Menuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul neighborhood. Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, and Batsheva Unterman were laid to rest Wednesday evening (2nd) also in Har Menuchot Cemetery in Givat Shaul.
(Ha’Aretz, Arutz-7, 7/3)
15 victims from Wednesday’s terror attack still hospitalized
Of the 45 people who were wounded in Wednesday’s (2nd) terror attack, 15 remain hospitalized.
At Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem, one victim is listed as moderately wounded, at Bikur Holim in Jerusalem four people remain interned for orthopedic care, and in Hadassah Ein Kerem, 10 more victims are also being treated for moderate wounds.
(JP, 7/3)
Israel goes to UN about Jerusalem attack
Israel’s delegation to the UN submitted a letter of complaint to the UN Security Council in which it demanded the council condemn the terror attack that took place in the capital on Wednesday (2nd).
The delegation stated that the attack took place within close proximity of the last attack, which the council has yet to condemn.
(Ynet, 7/3)
EU French Presidency condemns ‘heinous terrorist attack’
Brussels---The French Presidency of the European Union has condemned the “heinous terrorist attack” on Wednesday (2nd) in Jerusalem “in the strongest possible terms.”
“The presidency conveys its condolences to the families of the victims and their loved ones and expresses its sympathy and deepest solidarity to the people and government of Israel,” an EU statement read. “This unacceptable terrorist act does harm to all Israelis and Palestinians,” it added.
(European Jewish Press, 7/3)
Joy in terrorist’s neighborhood
Dozens of Arabs from Tzur Baher began shouting joyfully when news came of the terror attack by one of their neighbors Wednesday (2nd), HNN reported. The terrorist’s family members gathered in his house joyfully celebrating. His sister stated that her brother was now a shahid (martyr). Witnesses said as the terrorist died he yelled “Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great).” The killer was identified as Hussam Duwiyat.
(Arutz-7, HNN, 7/3)
Palestinian terrorism as a natural act – Bradley Burston
On a quiet morning in Jerusalem, a man behind the wheel of a bulldozer has taken it upon himself to kill Jews - women and children and the elderly and the infirm. What’s a decent person to think when Palestinian groups fall over one another trying to claim the bulldozer attack? And when one of the groups is the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade?
What is it that Palestinians really want? I no longer believe that it’s as simple as wanting statehood. What I don’t yet want to admit is that for all these years, a critical mass of Palestinians may not want statehood as much as seeing Jews dead and gone.
(Ha’Aretz, 7/3) |
Why were we surprised? – Moshe Elad
In July 1989, a member of Islamic Jihad from Gaza boarded a bus from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. As the bus ascended the hills, the terrorist walked up to the driver and pulled the wheel to the right, sending the bus into the valley below and murdering 16 people. Wednesday’s (2nd) terror attack, where a terrorist driving a bulldozer plowed into pedestrians and vehicles in Jerusalem, should not have come as a surprise. It is well known that the motivation of terror groups has not declined. Col. (ret.) Moshe Elad currently researches Palestinian society at the Samuel Neeman Institute at the Technion.
(Ynet, 7/3)
Terror’s predictable spontaneity – Gerald M. Steinberg
The constant pattern for over 60 years has been that whenever violent attacks against Israelis were contained on one front, another front was immediately opened, often involving a different form of violence. When the suicide bombing campaign was halted by Operation Defensive Shield and the construction of the security barrier, the rocket barrages started from Gaza. Now the shaky cease-fire in Gaza is the signal for a new and different form of violence against Israeli civilians.
Palestinians have been raised on the armed struggle, and many are capable of acting on their own, with whatever weapons are most readily available. The steady flow of incitement in the media plays a central role in this process, including Palestinian television programming preaching the virtues of martyrdom and the glory of fighting the Zionist enemy. As a result, the isolated action may appear to be spontaneous, but the foundation and preparations are never far away.
(JP, 7/3)
Number of Israeli terror victims on the rise – Amos Harel/Avi Issacharoff
The Palestinian terrorist with a bulldozer, and his eastern Jerusalem neighbor, who murdered eight students at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in March, involved one person, something for which an early warning based on intelligence is almost impossible.
When the murderer is a lone terrorist with no infrastructure backing him, and not having spoken about it, it is hard to stop him.
The Arabs of eastern Jerusalem carry Israeli identity cards, move about the capital with no restraint, speak fluent Hebrew and do not raise suspicions.
However about 300 residents of the eastern part of the city have been arrested during the last eight years for their role in terrorism.
Even if most of those killed this year have been victims of an individual’s attack in Jerusalem and rocket and mortar shelling from Gaza, the statistics are troubling: 26 dead in six months.
This number of victims is four times greater than last year.
(Ha’Aretz, 7/3)
Kassam falls in Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council – no injuries
No rockets or mortar shells should be fired into Israel according to a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel proclaimed on June 19, however more than a dozen have made their way onto Israeli soil fired by rocket crews from Gaza since the truce.
Another Kassam rocket was fired from northern Gaza on Thursday (3rd) landing close to a kibbutz at the Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council. No injuries were reported. A color red alert was sounded in the area.
(Ynet, 7/3)
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