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24-Apr-17: At Qalandiya Crossing, a woman stabber attacked an Israeli official this morning

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The alleged stabber
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There has been another Arab-on-Israeli stabbing attack today. This one took place around 6:45 Monday morning at the busy Qalandiya security checkpoint close to Ramallah and to Jerusalem’s northern suburbs.

The Israeli victim is a woman of 28, an employee of the Ministry of Defense’s Civil Administration. Ynet says she was rushed by ambulance to Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, to be treated for a shoulder stab wound.

The female terrorist responsible for Monday morning’s stabbing attack north of Jerusalem is uninjured. She has been identified as

Asya Kaabana, 41, who lives in the Shechem (Nablus) area town of Duma, the Shin Bet security agency reported. Kaabana is married and a mother of nine children, and recently has had difficulties in her marriage, with her husband threatening to send her back to her family in Jordan. The Shin Bet also discovered that the terrorist fought with her husband on Sunday night over their children’s education. This argument caused the woman to decide to carry out a terror attack, in the hopes Israeli security forces would shoot her, since, “she was sick of her life anyway”… [Israel National News]

According to a police spokesperson, the attacker

The attacker’s weapon [Image Source:
Israel Police]

is a resident of the territories [Judea and Samaria] who came to the Qalandiya checkpoint… While waiting in line to be checked, the terrorist approached a female security officer, claiming to have a question she needed to ask her. At this point she apparently drew a knife that was in her purse and quickly approached the female security officer and stabbed her. Police and security guards that were on the scene overpowered her and neutralized her… [a different Israel National News report]

Duma, where the attacker lives, is the village where an Arab home was destroyed by fire in mid-2015, causing the deaths of three members of one family, the Dawabshas. Charges in connection with the fire and the deaths were brought against an Israeli adult and a minor in January 2016. No convictions have yet been achieved. A vague Wikipedia reference [here] says various media accounts have “attributed the wave of stabbing attacks by Palestinians from late 2015 through 2016 at least partly to the Duma arson killings as well as Israeli delays in pressing charges against any suspects“. Could today’s attack be part of the “revenge” campaign?

Over at the Ma’an News Agency site, they name the attacker as Asiya Kaabna, calling her a resident of the village of “Tayba“, near Ramallah. Taybeh (a better spelling) is considered the last remaining all-Christian community under Palestinian Authority control, so – given that stabbing attacks by Christian are quite unusual – we doubt they have the facts right.

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