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Arrested: Two knife-bearing Arab women, 5 Jerusalemites for 'grassroots terror'
Police officers in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem Old City on Monday tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! an East Jerusalem teenage girl found in possession of a knife, on suspicion she was planning to carry out a stabbing attack. This was the second time in two weeks the 15-year-old were tossed into the calaboose for carrying a knife, the police said in a statement. The teenager "raised the suspicions" of coppers in the Jewish Quarter, who called for her to halt. The police initially reported that the knife had been found in the 15-year-old's purse, but later clarified that it had, in fact, been hidden in her sleeve. As a result, they brought the teen in for questioning. When officers checked the girl's information, they found that she had been arrested two weeks before, under the same suspicion. The girl, who was not named, was released a few days after her first arrest, when she claimed the knife in her bag was purchased for use in her family's home. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... police now believe that she was preparing to attack Jewish Israelis. "The way she took out the knife today -- and other pieces of information that have been collected -- increase the suspicion, and it appears as though the officers prevented the injury of innocent civilians today, thanks to their awareness and sensitivity to aberrations," the Israel Police said in a statement Monday evening. Jerusalem's Old City has been a frequent site of stabbing attacks in the ongoing cycle of violence, with many attacks taking place at Damascus Gate. Palestinian held after drawing knife on troops in Hebron [IsraelTimes] Israeli soldiers placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a Paleostinian woman after she brandished a knife while being checked at an army post in Hebron, the IDF said Monday. The woman was ordered to drop her weapon and complied, according to the army. 5 Jerusalem Arabs indicted for ‘grassroots terror’
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and linked to the group, which the Shin Bet alleges was involved in rock- and Molotov cocktail-throwing attacks at Israeli civilians and security forces. Two of the arrestees are minors, the Shin Bet says in a statement. In one case, on September 17, two minors from the group torched a bus in Ras al-Amud. "The interrogations also revealed that during riots in the neighborhood, the activists would block the road with garbage cans and cut off the power, in order to draw in police forces and then attack them with Molotov cocktails," the statement says. The five have been indicted for a string of alleged offenses, the statement says, noting that further indictments are in the offing for additional alleged members of the group. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-22 |
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