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The Israeli community of Adam (also known as Geva Binyamin, recalling the name of the site on which it stands which is mentioned in the biblical Book of Joshua), located just a few minutes drive north of Jerusalem and 45 minutes by frequent Egged bus ride from the capital’s Central Bus Station, is in stunned shock this morning.
As Times of Israel reports:
The Israeli man stabbed to death in a terror attack in a West Bank settlement on Thursday night was named Friday morning as 31-year-old Yotam Ovadia. His funeral will take place at 1 p.m. on Friday at the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem.
According to Israeli authorities, suspect Mohammad Tareq Yousef climbed over the security fence of the West Bank settlement of Adam sometime before 9 p.m. Thursday. He walked deeper into the settlement, crossing a playground area, where he encountered [31-year-old Yotam] Ovadia, and stabbed him repeatedly in the upper torso… father to a 2-year-old child and a 7-month-old baby. The Brinks security company announced on their Facebook page that he worked for them as a technician…
A second resident, 58, was also stabbed after arriving on the scene. He was rushed to a hospital in serious condition but it was upgraded to moderate after doctors managed to stabilize him.
A third resident, Assaf Raviv, 41, went outside to investigate the disturbance and, realizing that an attack was occurring, shot the Palestinian terrorist three times, killing him. He was stabbed and lightly injured during the incident, and on Friday morning it was announced he had been released from hospital. The settlement committee on Friday released a statement praising Raviv’s bravery…
Haaretz captures some of the Arab world’s reaction:
In response, the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza said it welcomes the attack, describing it as “the appropriate response to the crimes of the occupation.”
And
Hamas said in an official statement: “This is an act of heroism and a message to all the heads of the occupation that attempts to uproot the spirit of resistance from the heart of the Palestinian people have failed and today’s heroic action proves the unity of the Palestinian people and its common destiny. Yesterday three fighters were killed in Gaza and today the response has come from the West Bank.”
The terrorism-friendly editors of the Bethlehem-based Ma’an News Agency have not yet managed to report any of this in their English-language edition but it’s already headline news in their Arabic version (they understand their market’s needs). Via machine-translation, we see they name the killer as Ahmed Tarek Dar Yusuf Abu Ayouch, 17, and frame the news as “the death of a boy“. Other reports say he was younger than that.
Unsurprisingly Israel-hating social media posts (like this one and this) refer to the cold-blooded knifer as “martyr“.
Times of Israel notes that the knifer comes from
Khobar, a West Bank town near Ramallah. The village is the same village the killer of the Salomon family came from, exactly a year ago.
They are referring to the savagery we reported a little over a year ago in “22-Jul-17: Friday night carnage in Neve Tzuf“. (Do the British citizens of the English Midlands town of Walsall understand what they got into when they entered a twinning relationship with Khobar?)
What they ought to have mentioned as well, but didn’t, is that Khobar (or Kobar), a dusty village about 10 km north of the PA administrative capital Ramallah, happens also to be the home town of another notorious murderer, Marwan Barghouti, convicted on terrorism charges and involvement in five counts of murder in a criminal trial which we attended [“21-Mar-14: Allegedly objective journalism“].
Unlike the #WeaponizedChild teen who was lethally stopped last night trying to murder Jews, the older villager [“Who is Marwan Barghouti?“] gets his op eds published in the New York Times where they disingenuously call him “a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian”. There’s much more in our post “18-Apr-17: So what, in reality, is Marwan Barghouti?“, almost all of it ugly in the most serious of ways. Admirers of a certain loathsome South African churchman [“Archbishop Desmond Tutu nominates Marwan Barghouti for Nobel Peace Prize“] may be interested in his supporting role.
As often happens in the wake of lethal terror attacks inside Israeli communities, it’s likely the IDF will enlarge (for a time) its visible presence in the communities and on the roads of Judea and Samaria and carry out very active investigations in places like Khobar.
This morning’s reports suggest the possibility that the terror in Adam involved an accomplice and that a “suspicious vehicle” was seen leaving the community shortly after last night’s murder. Ma’an reports (again – only in Arabic for now) that three villagers have been taken into Israeli custody this morning in Khobar and names them as Nasrallah Yousef Mishal, 17, his brother Mohammed Mishal, 21 a 42-year-old Barghouti male named Khaldoun.
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