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Steven Emerson,
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November 5, 2014
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Another
Palestinian Terrorist Crashes Car Into Israeli Crowd, Killing One
by IPT News • Nov 5, 2014 at
12:46 pm
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A Palestinian terrorist rammed his car into a crowd of Israel
pedestrians in Jerusalem, at two separate spots near the light rail,
including one crowded station, killing a Border Police officer and injuring
14 other people, according to The
Jerusalem Post. Israeli authorities were aware that the terrorist,
Ibrahim al-Acri, was a Hamas operative, and the terrorist organization
claimed responsibility for the attack, referring to al Acri as a
"martyr" who conducted "a heroic operation."
This attack comes in context of a string of terrorist attacks targeting
Israelis in Jerusalem in recent weeks. On October 22, a suspected Hamas
member similarly crashed
his car into a crowd of Israelis exiting the light rail in Jerusalem,
killing a three month-old American-Israeli girl and injuring eight others.
Jerusalem is witnessing an increase in Palestinian attacks, including rock
throwing and Molotov cocktails.
According to WAFA,
an official Palestinian National Authority news agency, the terrorist in
the latest attack is innocent who merely lost control of his car. The WAFA
report omits the fact that after ramming his car over one person, the
terrorist sped off to another nearby junction where he crashed into other
pedestrians. The terrorist then allegedly exited the car with a metal bar
and continued to attack more people before Israeli police killed him.
Click here
to view security camera footage of the attack's initial stage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Palestinian
Authority (PA) and its Hamas partners of encouraging these latest terrorist
attacks through incendiary rhetoric and incitement to violence.
"The vehicular terror attack today in Jerusalem, is the direct
result of incitement by Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] and his
partner Hamas," stated
Netanyahu, speaking at the annual state remembrance ceremony
commemorating assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Earlier this week, Abbas' party Fatah called for a "Day
of Rage" in Jerusalem and explicitly encouraged further clashes
and attacks against Israelis in the city.
After claiming responsibility for today's action, Hamas has called for
more terrorist attacks against Israelis.
"We call on the people of Jerusalem and the West Bank and all of
the Palestinians to carry out more of these activities with full force in
order to defend al-Aksa," according to a Hamas'
statement released today.
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