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15 more arrested on suspicion of instigating Temple Mount riots
 [IsraelTimes] Overnight raids in East Jerusalem neighborhoods round up alleged key figures who police say fueled violent protestsAs part of ongoing security operations since festivities broke out some three weeks ago, police nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! overnight Wednesday a further 15 men suspected of playing key roles in recent violent demonstrations against Israeli security measures at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Officers and border guards, equipped with arrest warrants, raided homes in East Jerusalem and detained the suspects for questioning, police said in a statement. Raids took place in A Tur, Beit Hanina, Wadi Joz and Ras Al Amoud. The detainees are suspected of taking part in riots and endangering lives, the statement said. Following questioning they will be brought before a court to have their detention extended. Police said that by using a combination of groundwork, intelligence-gathering, documentation, and "sophisticated use of technologies," they were able to identify major instigators of violent rioting. During the festivities, dozens of Paleostinians gathered in a number of locations and threw stones, glass bottles and Molotov cocktails, set dumpsters alight, blocked roads, and launched firecrackers at security forces. Five protesters were killed and a number of officers were maimed during the rioting. "The Israel police takes a serious view of efforts to riot with the aim of shaping reality and to influence decision making, and will not allow it," the statement said. The latest arrests come just two days after 33 people were detained in similar raids over the violence. Thirty-one of those have had their remands extended, with nine already being handed indictments. The site is revered by Jews as the home of two destroyed biblical Temples, and is the holiest site in Judaism. Known to Moslems as Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), it houses the Dome of the Rock shrine and the al-Aqsa mosque. As victim’s condition stabilizes, IDF raids Yavneh terrorist’s hometown [IsraelTimes] The IDF on Thursday raided the West Bank hometown of a Paleostinian terrorist who stabbed and critically injured an Israeli supermarket worker the day before. The army did not make any arrests in the early-morning raid, an IDF spokesperson said, but soldiers entered the homes of the terrorist’s family members in an apparent search for contraband. On Wednesday morning, just before noon, Ismail Ibrahim Ismail Abu Aram, 19, attacked an employee of a Shufersal supermarket, stabbing him multiple times in the chest, neck and head. The brutal attack was captured by the store’s security camera (warning: graphic content). Abu Aram expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but was tackled and pinned to the ground by civilian bystanders until police arrived and nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! him. The 43-year-old victim was rushed to the nearby Kaplan Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, a hospital spokesperson said. After an hours-long operation to stop the bleeding and repair the damage caused by Abu Aram’s attack, the victim’s condition stabilized, but remained serious, according to Dr. Doron Shindel, the head of Kaplan’s head and throat surgery department. "He is being monitored and is receiving treatment in the intensive care unit. He is still unconscious and hooked up to a ventilator, and within the next few hours he will be brought back to an operating room to finish the surgery process," Shindel said in a statement Thursday morning. Shortly after the attack on Wednesday, the IDF raided Abu Aram’s home in the West Bank town of Yatta, also arresting no one. A few hours later, the army placed a cordon around the village. All traffic coming in and out of Yatta was being checked in a measure referred to by the army as a "breathing closure," the IDF said in a statement. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-04 |
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