 |
| The attack vehicle: The driver had a knife and used it too [Image Source] |
There has been an Arab-on-Israel attack just south of Jerusalem this bright, sunny, late Autumn morning (Friday). The first reports appeared on social media around 8:15 am.
From Times of Israel:
A Palestinian terrorist rammed his car into two people, seriously injuring one of them, before getting shot while trying to stab soldiers in the central West Bank on Friday morning, the army said. The driver of the vehicle, who has yet to be named, rammed his car into the first victim, a 70-year-old man, who sustained a light head wound, at the Efrat South junction, medics said. He continued down the road to the nearby Gush Etzion Junction where he hit another Israeli man, 35, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. The second victim was initially said to have been lightly-to-moderately wounded, but the hospital downgraded [sic] his condition to serious, with a brain injury. The army said the driver then got out of his car with a knife and tried to stab soldiers. “The soldiers responded by firing towards the attacker, resulting in his injury,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. According to the hospital, the terrorist was in critical condition.
Ramming followed by stabbing: it’s classic Palestinian Arab textbook jihad. At this stage, the indications – uncofirmed – are that the terrorist is being treated at one of the two Hadassah hospitals in Jerusalem.
Israel National News says the older of the two Israeli victims was run-over by the attacker in his van, and is being treated for his injuries at Shaarei Zedek Medical Center. The younger victim was struck by the same vehicle, and is being treated for serious head injuries at Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem.
The same source says (and at this early stage, we will be looking for confirmation) that terrorist who executed the attack is a seventeen year old Palestinian Arab. This means he is a child in the eyes of the law and will therefore be entitled to the attention and protections of the new bill proposed to the US Congress by Rep. Betty McCollum
a Democrat representing the families of Minnesota’s Fourth District in the United States House of Representatives. In 2000, Congresswoman McCollum made history as only the second Minnesota woman elected to serve in Congress since statehood in 1858. McCollum represents the residents of Minnesota’s capital city, St. Paul, as well as all of Ramsey County and most of Washington County…
From her November 14, 2017 media release:
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.) today introduced legislation— the Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act, H.R. 4391 — to prevent United States tax dollars from supporting the Israeli military’s ongoing detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children…
We sent her a Tweet on Wednesday which has evidently not yet received her staff’s attention:
What a shame if Re McCollum’s misguided initiative were to continue on its way without the author explaining how she rationalizes sanctioning Israel’s security policies while she and her law turn a blind eye to the Palestinian Authority’s open and explicit child weaponization. Vicious Arab-on-Israeli terror attacks like this morning’s are the direct result of that kind of silly moralistic preening.
Maybe someone could ask Rep McCollum where she stands on Arab-on-Israel ramming/stabbing attacks like today’s. And whether she sees her Bill stopping them or encouraging even more.
Leave a Reply