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| Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem [Image Source] |
We haven’t done much blogging lately. No, we’re not traveling. Nor are we dealing with back-to-back meetings as sometimes has happened in a previous era.
But in the current circumstances with a virus-borne plague turning life upside down everywhere, we’ve been distracted with the exigencies of life: staying indoors at home, worrying about family, taking care of food and supplies, protective items and hygiene aids. And engaging in numerous on-line meetings and webinars.
We’re planning to do some catching up, starting now.
It’s always clear to anyone watching that the practitioners of terror are generally motivated enough to keep at it even when their targets are pre-occupied. That’s been made manifest here via two troubling reports.
planning to carry out terror attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank, including a bombing in the capital’s Teddy Stadium, the Shin Bet security service says…. The three members of the terror cell — Ahmad Sajdaya, Muhammad Hammad, and Umar Eid — initially planned to construct a bomb and set it off in Teddy Stadium, performing reconnaissance operations and other preparations, before realizing that this would be too difficult to carry out due to the venue’s tight security. Instead, the trio planned to carry out bombing attacks on IDF troops in the West Bank and attempted a number of attacks last month… [They] also assisted in a number of attempted bombings against Israeli troops in recent years.
The Teddy Stadium, inaugurated in 1990 and named for long-time Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kolek, is owned by the Jerusalem municipality and has room for some 32,000 patrons. the largest sports stadium in the Middle East.
The as-yet unnamed Israeli is reported in moderate condition and recovering in hospital.
Times of Israel says a pipe-bomb was found in the attacker’s possession, indicating advance planning (notwithstanding the use of scissors) and a desire to inflict more serious losses than running down an Israeli sceurity person would suggest.
In the Aljazeera version, the attacker is identified as Ibrahim Halsa, 25, from the village of Sawahra. If they’re right, it’s located on Jerusalem’s south-eastern edge. Israel National News reports that a number of
“Arabs were injured in clashes in a-Sawahra village in the Jerusalem area, home of the Islamic operative who carried out the attack. Residents burned tires and IDF forces fired rubber bullets at them.”
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