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| IDF seizes cars bought with payouts to Hamas killer’s family |
| 2017-07-31 |
| [IsraelTimes] Security forces impound vehicles from relatives of perpetrator involved in fatal 2015 shooting of Eitam and Naama Henkin During an overnight raid, Israeli security forces seized from the family of a Paleostinian terrorist who carried out a deadly 2015 shooting attack vehicles paid for with Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", compensation, the army said Sunday. The West Bank raid was part of a continuing crackdown by Israeli authorities against funding for Paleostinian Lions of Islam and their families. The vehicles, estimated to be worth tens of thousands of shekels, were financed using cash Hamas gave the families of the terror cell that killed Eitam and Naama Henkin in a drive-by shooting in October 2015, the IDF said in a statement. The statement did not identify which family of the four-member terror cell that carried out the attack was raided or where it took place. At least four of the Lions of Islam came from families living in Nablus. It did not say how many cars were impounded. The Henkins were driving with their four young children -- the oldest was nine years old at the time -- on the road between the northern West Bank settlements of Elon Moreh and Itamar when they were ambushed as their car slowed down at an intersection. Four days later the IDF tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! four members of a cell over the shooting. In June 2016, all four were convicted and sentenced by a military court to two life terms and 30 years in prison each. During the investigation two other Hamas members were also implicated in organizing the shooting. The money paid to the families was intended to be used to rebuild the terrorists’ homes that were demolished by security forces after the attack, the statement said. Each of the families has so far received tens of thousands of shekels, the IDF estimated. The Paleostinian Authority also provides monthly salaries, usually via an intermediary organization, to the families of those convicted of carrying out terror attacks on Israelis or the relatives of those killed perpetrating such attacks. Israeli officials have repeatedly demanded that the payments be stopped, saying they amount to incitement to terror. Legislative efforts are under way in both Israel and the US to cut funding to the PA if the payments continue. In other overnight operations Saturday to arrest suspects in the Jenin refugee camp, 10 IEDs were thrown at security forces, the IDF said. Forces fired back with nonlethal weapons and identified two suspects who were apparently hit by the munitions. Overall, 15 suspects were arrested in the West Bank for involvement in popular terror activities and violent rioting, the statement said. Would-be terrorist turns himself in to Tel Aviv police [IsraelTimes] A 22-year-old man from the Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm is under arrest, after telling coppers in Tel Aviv he had planned to carry out a terror attack, Channel 2 reports. The man approached the police office in the city’s Central Bus Station and said he had planned to stab passersby, and had even obtained a knife for the purpose, but regretted his decision once he arrived and decided to throw away the knife and turn himself in. According to Channel 2, officers are unable to locate the knife. The man is taken for questioning by Shin Bet Sherlocks. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 I shall be impressed when you sieze everything from Abu Mazens terror family. Then, maybe. But not now. I know what you are allowing to happen to Yerusalem and none of those people there belong right now and you all know it. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-07-31 00:09 |