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Police arrest 31 in sweep of East Jerusalem neighborhood
[IsraelTimes] Explosive device detonated near Issawiya mosque during the operation, but no one injuredIDF troops and border police carried out a major arrest operation overnight Tuesday in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, police said Wednesday. During the operation, Israeli forces placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! 31 people suspected of rock throwing, possessing illegal weapons and rioting, a police statement said. Another 18 people were brought in for questioning. During the sweep, a low-scale bomb exploded near the entrance to the mosque in the neighborhood. No one was injured by the blast. The operation had been planned in advance based on intelligence findings, the police statement said. The statement also said that in tandem with the arrest operation, the police have partnered with the Jerusalem municipality’s beautification and sanitation departments to improve the overall quality of public spaces in the neighborhood, including increasing sanitation efforts, erasing graffiti and painting street curbs. Israel recently announced new efforts to crack down on crime and raise the standard of living in Arab neighborhoods. Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... Israeli forces clashed with Paleostinian youths overnight Tuesday during an operation to demolish the home of a terrorist in the West Bank town of Qalandiya. Two soldiers were lightly injured when rocks were thrown at troops during the demolition of a house belonging to the family of Hassin Abu Gush, 17, who killed Shlomit Krigman in a stabbing attack in the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon in January, the army said. The army said troops were attacked with rocks, Molotov cocktails and an improvised bomb thrown at soldiers who responded by firing tear gas and then live bullets at the protesters. Two Paleostinians were shot during the festivities, according to the Paleostinian Ma’an news agency. The army confirmed the reports. Abu Gush along with Ibrahim Al’an, 23, from the West Bank Paleostinian village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, entered the Beit Horon settlement near Jerusalem on January 25 and stabbed shoppers in a local grocery store. Both were rubbed out by a security guard at the scene. Krigman, 23, was maimed and died a day later. Another woman was moderately maimed.
But the High Court of Justice rejected the petition last week, citing early Shin Bet warnings to the family as proof that they had been given ample opportunity to prevent the attack. The security service warned the family that their son was edging into bully boy behavior, but the teenager nevertheless went on to carry out the attack that killed Krigman. In their ruling the judges noted that in the months before the attack, the Shin Bet identified Abu Gush as expressing bad boy views and suspected that he was planning to carry out a terror attack. Last August he was called in with his father for a talk with a Shin Bet coordinator to warn them that the teen should change his ways, the Walla report said. The coordinator also made it clear to the father that his son had been banned from entering Israel because of his behavior. They were then released. Two months later the coordinator called the father and after warning him that his son was continuing in his "bad ways," made clear to him that next time there wouldn’t be just a phone call but a house visit. Three months later the son carried out the attack along with Al’an. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-04-21 |
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