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| Shots fired at soldiers at north Jerusalem checkpoint, two stabbing attacks earlier in the day | |
| 2015-11-24 | |
| [IsraelTimes] No Israeli injuries reported in shooting incident; IDF soldier killed in stabbing attack hours earlier Paleostinian gunnies Monday night shot up Israeli security personnel at a military checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah. Border Police officers manning the Qalandiya checkpoint were uninjured in the incident, and returned fire towards the shooters, according to the Israel Police. It was unclear if there were any Paleostinian casualties. The Qalandiya checkpoint is a frequent flash point for festivities between IDF forces and Paleostinian protesters. Monday saw two separate attacks carried out by Paleostinian assailants against Israelis. Outside a West Bank gas station on Route 443, 18-year-old IDF soldier Ziv Mizrahi was fatally stabbed by a Paleostinian from the West Bank village of Katana. Magen David Adom paramedics attempted to revive Mizrahi, who was an IDF driver, but a front man said first responders were forced to pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! at the scene. Police identified Ahmad Taha as the assailant. He was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in the area. Another woman was lightly hurt when her car was hit by gunfire from security forces trying to thwart the attack. Hours before, two teenage Paleostinian girls armed with scissors injured an elderly Paleostinian they mistook for an Israeli Jew in a stabbing terror attack near Jerusalem's busy Mahane Yehuda market. Police later identified the two attackers as cousins Hadil and Nurhan Awad, aged 14 and 16, from Qalandiya. Sixteen-year-old Hadil died at the scene and 14-year-old Nurhan was badly hurt and detained, a police spokesperson said. After attack, soldiers and Arab woman unite in peace dance
Channel 2 news hound covering the Jerusalem stabbing attack on Monday afternoon stumbled on an unusual sight, even for unpredictable Jerusalem: An Arab woman dancing to a Hebrew song with several IDF soldiers, embracing them, and preaching coexistence. Hawala Jaber, a resident of Umm al-Fahm in her 50s, has been working in Jewish homes for many years, said veteran Channel 2 news hound Moshe Nussbaum, calling the incident “one of the most surreal scenes I have seen.” Jaber, who was passing close to the scene of Monday's terror attack in Jerusalem when she broke out into dance, told the TV station she is "very angry at the bullshit they do here to the Jews." Two Paleostinian girls, aged 14 and 16, stabbed a Paleostinian man in his 70s with a pair of scissors, thinking he was an Israeli Jew. The older Paleostinian teenager was shot and killed at the scene, whereas her younger cousin was badly injured by the gunfire. An Israeli security guard, 27, was lightly injured by friendly fire at the site of the attack outside the Mahane Yehuda market on Jaffa Road. Speaking Hebrew tinged with a heavy Arabic accent less than an hour after the attack, Jaber told Nussbaum: "We live here together, we are all flesh and we are all blood. Under the blood, there is no such thing, Arab or Jew. It is all nonsense, we all live together. In the Old City, you have Jews here and Arabs here and just a road between them. All our lives we live together." Jaber said the turbans are "crazies, no brain. They must be giving them pills that make their heads turn," drawing applause from Israeli civilians gathered around her. As the Channel 2 crew continued filming, two young female soldiers who were nearby spontaneously burst into a traditional song. The lyrics: "The eternal nation is not afraid of the long road ahead." An Israeli man joined them and they started dancing in a circle; he then grabbed Jaber, who joined them in the dance. An ultra-Orthodox man and other shoppers looked on. In the footage, Jaber is also seen embracing and kissing the troops. | |
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