From the times of
Israel, by Stuart Winer 10-10- 2016,
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PA leader’s faction
declares day of mourning for terrorist who shot dead two Israelis; Hamas leader
congratulates his parents in phone call
The political
faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas honored as a “martyr”
a gunman who killed two Israelis in Jerusalem on Sunday, and called for a
general strike and public mourning in his memory.
Israeli monitor
group Palestinian Media Watch noted that the praise for the terrorist, whose
identity remains under gag order in Israel, was posted on Fatah’s official
Facebook page.
“The one who carried
out the operation today in Jerusalem is a pilgrim [to Mecca] martyr, one of the
most prominent people in Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and a
released prisoner,” Fatah said, according to an English translation of the
Arabic provided by PMW.
Israeli officials
have long complained that incitement and support from the Palestinian Authority
in the form of praise, honorifics, and cash payments to the families of
Palestinians killed during attacks encourages further terrorism.
According to PMW,
“Fatah referred to the murderer as a “shahid,” an Islamic martyr, a status
often depicted by official Palestinian Authority media as the highest
achievement to which a Muslim can aspire.
In another post to
the Facebook page, the Jerusalem branch of Fatah announced a general strike “in
Jerusalem in memory of the souls of the martyrs of Palestine and this morning’s
martyr.”
The message quoted a
section from the Koran that said, “Permission [to fight] has been given to
those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is
competent to give them victory.”
erusalem resident
Levana Malihi, 60, and police officer First Sergeant Yosef Kirma, 29, were
killed and six others injured after the terrorist sprayed bullets at passersby
from a moving car on Sunday morning near Ammunition Hill in the north of the
capital. The shooter, a resident of Silwan in East Jerusalem, was shot dead by
police.
Hamas claimed the
man as one of its members. After apparently taking credit for the attack, the
Gaza-based terror group also praised the shooting as “heroic” and “brave.”
The group’s
Qatar-based leader, Khaled Mashaal, called the parents of the terrorist on
Sunday evening and congratulated him, saying his actions “defended the
Palestinian people.”
According to
Palestinian reports, he added that Palestinians were “proud” of their son, whom
he praised as an “example” to his contemporaries. “Hamas will carry on it its
jihad until Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are liberated from the impurity of
the occupation,” he said.
In a separate
statement, Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum called the attack “a natural
reaction to the crimes and violations of the occupation against our people.”
The Palestinian
Islamic Jihad movement also praised that attack, calling it “heroic.”
The US State
Department condemned the attack, saying “there is absolutely no justification
for the taking of innocent lives. We also condemn the statements glorifying
this reprehensible and cowardly attack.”
The gunman opened
fire at a group of people waiting at a light rail stop on Haim Bar-Lev Street,
hitting one woman before speeding off toward Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau
Street where he shot and fatally wounded Malihi.
After shooting at
civilians twice, the assailant continued toward the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh
Jarrah. In a shootout with police, he killed Kirma before officers gunned him
down.
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