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22-Jul-17: Friday night carnage in Neve Tzuf

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Elad Salomon Z”L, pictured with his wife Michal, was murdered at his parents’
Sabbath table on Friday night [Image Source]

The Friday night news from Neve Tzuf (often called Halamish which is the Hebrew word for flint) is devastating.

A man, Omar al-Abed, 19, from a Palestinian Arab settlement called Kobar – the home village of the notorious convicted Palestinian Arab terrorist Marwan Barghouti – jumped the fence in the dark and made his way to one of the nearby, brightly-lit houses. He burst into the home around 9:30 pm brandishing a kitchen knife he had purchased earlier in the day for what he admitted to be an intended knife attack on Jews.

Finding a family seated at their Shabbat dinner, he launched a frenzied attack and managed to stab four family members. We know now that they are Yosef Zvi Salomon, 70: his wife Tova, 68; their daughter Haya Esther Salomon, 46; and their son Elad Salomon, 36.

Tova is seriously injured and underwent emergency surgery in Jerusalem’s Shaarei Zedek Medical Center last night. After the surgery, she was told that her husband and two of their children had died of their injuries. There are three other children.

Times of Israel says the Solomons were celebrating the birth of a baby boy in the family. Also that Elad’s wife, Michal, managed to flee from the carnage and protect their five children behind a locked door from where she called police.

The same report quotes the murderer saying he was driven to carry out the killings by the incitement of “the imams on the Temple Mount“.

And from another source, it appears he had been under suspicion of terrorist plans and was arrested three months ago by PA security forces, spending the next two weeks in PA detention where he was “violently interrogated about alleged plans to attack Israelis before he was released.” His father described the motivation:

[H]is son was upset over the loss of Palestinian lives following violent clashes over escalating tensions at the Temple Mount and wanted to protect the “honor” of the Jerusalem holy site. “The honor of Muslims is only the Haram,” Mohammed al-Abed said. “If it’s gone, the Muslims’ honor is gone. This was the motive for my son.”

In a Facebook post prior to the attack, the knifer said

he expected to be killed in the attack. He wrote that he wanted his body to be covered by a banner of the Hamas terror group and a photo of Abbas’s predecessor, Yasser Arafat… [Times of Israel]

The Islamist terror movement in Gaza wasted no time aligning itself with the murderer:

Hamas issued a statement this evening welcoming the attack, which they called “heroic.” According to Hamas, the attack followed “Israel’s violation of the rights of our people in Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” [Ynet]

It’s been a big weekend for the stabber’s family. Ismail Haniyeh, who became the head of the Hamas terrorists in May 2017, phoned the father and, quoted here, said “Your son brought pride to the nation.”

Fatah, desperate not to fall too far behind in the terrorism stakes, issued its own statement [here] praising the Arab-on-Israeli killings. Mahmoud Abbas who heads Fatah in addition to being the PA’s President-for-Life may yet condemn the stabbing-killings because… well, because he can. And doing that, in a cruel, superficial and hypocritical world, has its uses. But also because the mainstream news media routinely avoid pointing out the brazen, chronic contradictions in the man’s stance on terror: advocates for it in his Arabic messaging, while claiming to be against it when talking to the non-Arabic media. This works.

It’s a hard neighbourhood in which to live: all of Neve Tzuf’s residents had to briefly abandon their community eight months ago [“27-Nov-16: What lies behind the conflagration“] when wild fires destroyed a depressingly large number of the community’s homes.

Neve Tzuf is located across the highway and an easy stroll from Nabi Saleh, the Tamimi clan’s base of operations about which we wrote “17-Mar-13: A little village in the hills, and the monsters it spawns“; “29-Aug-15: Revisiting a Palestinian Arab village and its monsters“; and “01-Sep-15: A tale of two villages: one devoted to non-violence, another that actually exists“.

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