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5 Arabs Sentenced to Prison for Attacking and Harassing Jews in Jerusalem
20 April, 2016 |
10 years ago
Five Arabs received prison sentences on Wednesday morning at the Jerusalem District Court, for harassing, attacking and wounding Jews on the Armon Hanatsiv promenade in Jerusalem.
Two minors were sentenced to 40 months in prison and another minor received 16 months. Ahmed Ghazawi was sentenced to 20 months, and Ibrahim Ghazawi received an 18 month sentence.
A sixth defendant confessed several days ago and will be sentenced on May 30.
Shin Bet Arrests “Jewish Terror Cell” that Attacked Palestinians
20 April, 2016 |
10 years ago
The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) released for publication on Wednesday that it has arrested what it called a “Jewish terror cell”, including at least six members who carried out attacks against Palestinians.
The attacks include a November 2015 incident in which firebombs were thrown into a Palestinian family’s home in the village of al-Mazraa al-Qabaliya. The firebomb hit a window and did not penetrate into the building. “Death to Arabs” and “revenge” was sprayed in Hebrew graffiti on the exterior walls.
According to the Shin Bet, the cell also committed an attack in the village of Beitillu during December 2015. Smoke bombs were thrown into a house as a family slept inside. Hebrew graffiti, including the word “revenge”, was sprayed on its exterior walls. No one was injured in the incident.
Israel Demolishes Home of Terrorist Who Killed an Israeli Woman
20 April, 2016 |
10 years ago
IDF, border police and Civil Administration forces demolished a terrorist’s home in Qalandiya overnight. The terrorist, Hussein Abu Ghosh, committed a stabbing attack in January in Beit Horon, near Jerusalem, killing 23-year-old Shlomit Krigman and wounding another woman.
The troops who demolished the house were attacked by local Palestinians. Rocks, firebombs and cinder blocks were hurled at the forces, as well as a home-made explosive device that lightly wounded two soldiers. They were evacuated to Hadassah hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.
Court Issues Gag Order Over Investigation of Bus Terror Bombing in Jerusalem
19 April, 2016 |
10 years ago
The Jerusalem Magistrates Court accepted a request by the police and issued a gag order over all the investigation details in the Monday terror bombing on a Jerusalem bus.
The order also prohibits the publication of details that may identify the suspected terrorists, and is valid for thirty days until May 19.
US Vice President Joe Biden: Israel Moving in Wrong Direction
19 April, 2016 |
10 years ago
US Vice-President Joe Biden said on Monday that Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership is moving in “the wrong direction,” adding that he felt “overwhelming frustration” with the Israeli government. The remarks were made at the gala of the Israel-lobby J Street, a relatively new US lobby organization that is frequently critical of Netanyahu.
“I firmly believe that the action Israel’s government has taken over the past several years — the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalization of outposts, land seizures — they’re moving us, and more important, they’re moving Israel, in the wrong direction,” Biden said. “They’re moving us toward a one-state reality, and that reality is dangerous.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry, who also spoke at the gala, said that the United States will continue pushing hard for the two-state solution as any other scenario would be “neither Jewish nor democratic.”
