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| The Arabic caption, depicting a sweet, traditional Ramadan dessert, reads “Tel Aviv operation.” Shehab Agency is known as the media face of the Hamas terrorists [source]. This season is known as peak time for acts of Pal Arab jihadistry |
It’s a bright and sunny Thursday morning here in Jerusalem – idyllic weather, calm in the air, a festive atmosphere as residents are busy with the pleasures of this coming weekend’s Shavuot festival.
In Tel Aviv, the murderous attack last night on the Max Brenner chocolate store in the busy and popular Sarona open-air market precinct is still being scrutinized – by those who were there and survived, by the hundreds of thousands who work nearby or pass by daily, by the authorities responsible for preventing threats to public well-being, by the news media trying to find (and often failing) to sound the right tone.
Ynet names those murdered last as:
- Idan Ben-Aryeh, 42, from Ramat Gan;
- Ilana Nave, 39, from Tel Aviv;
- Dr. Michael Feige, 58 from Midreshet Ben-Gurion;
- Mila Mishayev, 32, from Rishon Lezion.
As for who did the killings, a statement was issued early this (Thursday) morning claiming the two armed shooters who launched the frenzied machine-gun attack on diners were acting in the name of Hamas.
The Islamist terrorist group posing as a government has claimed credit – via its official Twitter account (yes, such a thing exists) – for the killings and injuries, and has praised the assailants both of whom are alive and in the hands of the appropriate Israeli authorities. It calls the shootings “heroic” and it suggests – via a chilling cartoon image [here] – more attacks are going to follow during Ramadan, the month-long Muslim religious observance that began this week. The Arabic caption, depicting a sweet, traditional Ramadan dessert, reads “Tel Aviv operation.”
Times of Israel assesses the human price this morning this way:
At least four people were killed in the terror attack Wednesday night at [Sarona]… another 16 were injured, including three in serious condition… The two suspects were named in Palestinian media reports as Muhammad and Khalid Muhamra. One of the men was shot by a security guard and seriously injured, the second was arrested by police and taken in for questioning. The two 21-year-old men from the West Bank village of Yatta, near Hebron, entered Israel illegally, but had no criminal record.
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| The Sarona mall website (click to enlarge) |
One of those two men is said by Hamas to be a student at a Jordanian university.
Ismail Haniyeh, one of the leaders of the Hamas terrorists, is widely quoted this morning calling one of the two terrorist-shooters a “hero” and intimated, for those concerned with the finer aspects of the Islamist outlook on life, that he was “praying for his soul”. Times of Israel says Hamas called the killings of diners seated in a cafe “a message from children of the resistance to leaders of the occupation, especially [Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman]”…
Unable to take the risk of appearing less blood-lusting than their Islamist rivals, Fatah – the party that controls the Palestinian Authority and that is headed by the PA president, Mahmoud Abbas – also issued a statement today: Israel is “reaping the repercussions of choosing violence against the Palestinian people.”
Meanwhile Palestinian Arab society is in a social-media frenzy this morning adding two fresh candidates [here] to its lengthy list of weapon-toting role-models for their children and heroic figures to be praised by their political and religious leaders.
Israelis, us among them, are asking, even as three of the Israeli victims are still fighting for their lives in intensive care at nearby Ichilov hospital this morning, whether all the security that could reasonably be deployed was present last night, and whether it can currently be found in all the other locations where it may be needed. The evidence is that the jihadists and those who dispatch them know how to read news reports.
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