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| Soldier lightly hurt in West Bank car-ramming |
| 2015-12-27 |
| [IsraelTimes] Attacker shot at scene of attack at Hawara checkpoint near Nablus, dies later of his wounds An Israeli soldier was lightly hurt Saturday afternoon in a car-ramming attack at a checkpoint near the town of Hawara in the northern West Bank, close to the city of Nablus. The attacker was shot at the scene, Israel's Ynet news website said, later reporting that he had died of his wounds in hospital in Nablus. The website identified him as 56-year-old Maher Jabi, but gave no details of his residence. Channel 2 television reported that the attack apparently occurred after soldiers set up a surprise checkpoint at the site in order to inspect Paleostinian cars. The attack came hours after security forces thwarted a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, when an assailant from East Jerusalem pulled out a knife and assaulted coppers near the Old City's Jaffa Gate. Also Saturday, Jerusalem police clashed with some 150 Paleostinian protesters in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, who were demanding that Israel return the bodies of those killed while carrying out attacks. Police cleared away the protesters using riot dispersal measures. Some threw stones at the security forces, and one person was tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! , Channel 2 reported. Later, the IDF shot up a bulldozer in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, after the driver of the vehicle attempted to drive through a roadblock. No injuries were reported in the incident. Israeli troops raid home of Jerusalem stabber — report [IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces on Saturday raided the home of an East Jerusalem who was killed earlier in the day while trying to stab coppers near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, the Paleostinian news agency Ma'an reported. According to the report, troops entered the family home of Musab al-Ghazali in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, hours after he was rubbed out by coppers on Saturday morning. The man's uncle, Abu Wajdi al-Ghazali, told Ma'an that the Israeli forces who carried out the raid in Silwan also summoned the attacker's brothers and father for questioning. Police on patrol near the gate had noticed the man behaving in a suspicious manner, as he appeared to be following Jewish worshipers walking nearby. When the officers approached him and said they wanted to search him, the man pulled out a knife and lunged at them. The officers shot and killed him. The coppers were unharmed. Ma'an quoted the uncle as saying that Musab al-Ghazali had mental disabilities. He also reportedly denied that his nephew had tried to stab the coppers, saying that the unemployed 26-year-old had set out to collect used bottles, in order to reclaim the deposit money on them. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Just a simple bottle- collector minding his own business....yeah, right! |
| Posted by: Bob Chath4605 2015-12-27 09:44 |