Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts

Thursday, August 03, 2023

Jewish Voice for Peace writes in their email newsletter:
On Sunday, the Israeli Knesset passed a shockingly racist law — even by the standards of Israel’s apartheid government.

Under the new "sexual terrorism" law, Palestinian citizens of Israel convicted of rape, sexual assault, or sexual harassment can receive double the sentence of Israelis found guilty of the same crimes. The law passed in a bipartisan vote of 39-7, and received immediate condemnation from journalists, Israeli feminist groups, and Palestinian lawmakers.

This law manufactures an image of Palestinians as more violent and more dangerous than Israelis. According to the law, a crime is inherently worse simply because a Palestinian committed it. This puts a target on the back of Palestinian men and boys, intensifying the constant threat of violence that Palestinians already live under.
Really? A law that says that Israeli Arabs would get double the sentence of Israeli Jews? 


The Knesset on Monday passed a right-wing-backed law that makes terrorist, nationalist or racist motivations an aggravating factor in crimes of sexual harassment and sexual assault.

Aggravating factors come into play during criminal sentencing and are a consideration that can push judges toward issuing a sentence closer to the legal maximum.

The law would double compensation fines for sexual harassment motivated by racism or hostility toward certain groups. 

The entire intent of the law is to ensure that in cases like the rape and murder of Ori Ansbacher, where the smiling terrorist admitted that his attack was for nationalist reasons, that the sentence would be stricter. 

There hasn't been a huge amount of Palestinian rape of Jewish women specifically as terrorism, but they have occured. In 2012, a Palestinian kidnapped a Jewish couple and raped the woman. The court at the time did not consider this a terror attack, but the Israeli Defense Ministry did determine it was a "nationalistic" crime because of previous terror attacks by the rapist.

An Israeli woman gang-raped by four Palestinians in 2006 was likewise determined by the Defense Ministry to have been the victim of a nationalist crime. 

In these crimes, the rapist specifically seeks out a Jewish woman for attack. As heinous as any rape is, when it is done as a terror act, it is worse: the rapist does not attack Arab women but specifically Jews. 

There have also been reports of Palestinian youths sexually assaulting Jewish women on buses and other public places. Again, when they single out Jewish women for assault, that is a terror attack, not an ordinary rape.

There is nothing wrong, and certainly not racist, with saying  that a terror rape attack should have a stricter punishment than a similar attack that had no nationalistic motive. 

The law does not say anything about Arabs. If a British-born BDS activist would rape an Israeli Jewish woman he would get the same consideration for a sentence. 

As we've seen, Israeli courts have not automatically determined that every rape by a Palestinian is a terror attack, just as they do not automatically determine that every shooting by Arabs against Jews is a terror attack - some crimes have only criminal motivation.


The only bigots here are the members of JVP. Notice their wording, defining Israeli Arabs as "Palestinians" and saying that "Israelis" are all Jews. Even though very few Israeli Arabs define themselves as "Palestinian," JVP is telling them that they are not really Israeli, dismissing their own self-definition. And then JVP  calls Jews racists for passing a law against terrorism and racism. 
 



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Sunday, June 25, 2023




Times of Israel reports:

Israel Defense Forces chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai in a joint statement on Saturday strongly condemned an ongoing series of settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, branding them as “nationalist terrorism in the full sense of the term.”

In the wake of a deadly terror attack carried out by Hamas-affiliated gunmen in the West Bank on Tuesday, in which four Israelis were killed, the past five days have seen hundreds of settlers rampage inside Palestinian towns and villages, setting fire to homes, cars, and even opening fire in some cases.

“In recent days, violent attacks by Israeli citizens against innocent Palestinians have been carried out in the Judea and Samaria area,” the security chiefs’ statement read, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name. “These attacks are against every moral and Jewish value and are also nationalist terrorism in the full sense of the term, and we are obliged to fight them.”
It then later reported in a headline, "Far-right ministers reject criticism of settler attacks on Palestinians as ‘terror’" - but I couldn't find in the text of the article where they said that. They complained about placing an equivalence between the settler attacks and Palestinian attacks, which is not how I interpret the joint statement.

Whether they said it or not, it is important that the Israeli side not engage in what the Israel haters do all the time - redefine terms for political purposes. Israel-haters do it with "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing" and many other accusations against Israel, ignoring the real meaning of the terms, and the Zionist side must not do the same.

While there is no single agreed upon definition of terrorism, here are some.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2005 said that "terrorism is any action intended to cause death or serious harm to civilians with the purpose of intimidation."

A 2018 UN report on terrorism included in its definition, “any action...that is intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a Government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.”

The US Department of Defense says it is "The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological."

While one might argue whether the rioters intend to cause death to the members of the Arab villages they rioted in, there is no doubt they intend to use violence to intimidate them. The violence is targeting people who are not known to be involved in attacks.

Israel is subjected to double standards all the time. If we are against such double standards, we must enforce a single standard ourselves, no matter what. 

The riots are illegal, immoral, and collective punishment. They are indeed terror. Beyond that, they are counterproductive and hurt the State of Israel, especially among its newest peace partners in the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco, not to mention its relations with Europe and the US.  The anger might be understandable but the actions are not justifiable. 

The IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Police are correct in their statement, and the rioters are hurting the State of Israel they claim to support. Unlike what Smotrich said, clearly condemning the rioters' crimes in no way lessens the horror and depravity of Palestinian terrorism.

 



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Monday, October 31, 2022

On October 29, AP reported:

The U.N. Mideast envoy said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the U.N. started tracking fatalities in 2005, and he called for immediate action to calm “an explosive situation” and move toward renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Tor Wennesland told the U.N. Security Council that “mounting hopelessness, anger and tension have once again erupted into a deadly cycle of violence that is increasingly difficult to contain,” and “too many people, overwhelmingly Palestinian have been killed and injured.”  
What Mr. Wennesland, and the media at large, ignores is that the overwhelming majority of those killed were in the midst of violent actions at the time, and most were members of armed terrorist groups. 

Adin Haykin has been maintaining a huge Twitter thread of those killed this year, with photos and documentation. The real story isn't the record number of Palestinians killed, but the number of Palestinian attackers.  

Nearly all those killed were either in the midst of attacking or were members of known terror groups. Out of 121 killed (one died of a heart attack,) I only count six who might have been innocent - killed while the IDF was going after attackers, or one killed when he ignored warning shots and kept approaching the soldiers, for example. As his documentation shows, even most of the women and children killed this year were in the midst of attacking Israeli soldiers or civilians. (Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh is very much an anomaly in this list.)

This is a year of attacks unprecedented since the second intifada. And Israel has no need to apologize for killing the terrorists before most of them manage to reach Israeli civilians. 

One other data point: before May 2021, the number of attacks using small arms were quite small, only a couple a month. The number of shooting attacks tracked by the Shin Bet have dramatically increased since then; here are the statistics over the past 12 months:



And here's the trend of Palestinian pipe bombs tracked by the Shin Bet:





This is what the UN and the media are not telling you. 

Here is Adin Haykin's thread:

1. Bakir Muhammad Musa Hashash
Hamas
opened fire on IDF troops
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2. Falah Musa Shaker Jaradat
attempted a stabbing attack
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3. 'Omar Muhammad 'Abd al-Majid As'ad
reportedly died of a heart attack hours after being released from detention
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4. Adham Jamal 'Abd a-Rahim Mabrukah
5. Ashraf Muhammad 'Abd al-Fatah Mbaslat
6. Muhammad Raed Hussein Dakhil
A cell of the Islamic Jihad that was eliminated on the way to a terrorist attack
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7. Muhammad Akram 'Ali Abu Salah
was a military operative of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
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8. Nihad Amin Yunes Dar al-'Is (Barghuthi)
rioter
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9. Muhammad Rizaq Shehadeh Salah
killed after throwing Molotov cocktails
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10. Ahmad Hikmat Ahmad Seif
Fatah operative, threw Molotov cocktail
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11. Shadi Khaled 'Ali Nijm
12. 'Abdallah Ahmad Diab al-Husari
PIJ operatives
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13. 'Ammar Shafiq 'Issa Abu 'Afifah
reportedly ran away from a soldier's interrogation
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14. Yamen Nafez Mahmoud Khanafsah
DFLP, threw Molotov cocktails
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15. Karim Jamal Muhammad Isma'il al-Qawasmi
stabbed policemen
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16. 'Abd a-Rahman Jamal Muhammad Qassem
Hamas stabbed 2 Border Police
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17. 'Alaa Muhammad 'Abd al-Qader Shahham
rioter
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18. Nader Haitham Fathi Rayan
PIJ operative
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19. Sanad Muhammad Khalil Abu 'Atiyyah
20. Yazid Nidal Sa'ed a-Din a-S'adi
PIJ operatives
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21. Ahmad Yunes Sidqi Atrash
Hamas, threw Molotov cocktails
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22. Khalil Muhammad Khalil Taleb
23.Seif Hifzi Muhammad Abu Libdah
24.Saaeb Taysir Muhammad 'Abahrah
PIJ operatives
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25. Hanan Mahmoud 'Abd a-Ra'uf Khaddur
Killed in the exchange of fire of the Islamic Jihad that eliminated:
26. Ahmad Naser 'Abd a-Rahman a-S'adi
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27. Muhammad Hussein Muhammad 'Adel Qassem
PIJ operative
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28. Ghadah Ibrahim 'Ali Hassan
She was shot at the legs after she spring towards the IDF soldiers who told her to stop
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29. Muhammad 'Ali Ahmad Ghneim
Fatah rioter
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30. Maha Kazem 'Awad a-Za'tari
stabbed a Border Police officer
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31. Qusai Fouad Muhammad Hamamreh
Fatah operative
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32. Muhammad Hassan Muhammad 'Assaf
PLO rioter
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33. Shaas Fouad Nayef Kamamji
34. Mustafa Abu al-Rab
PIJ
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35. Shaukat Kamal Abed,
Fatah operative,
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36. Lutfi Ibrahim Lutfi Labadi
Fatah 
operativeImage
37. Ahmad Muhammad Fathi Masad
An Islamic Jihad 
operativeImage
38. Yihya 'Ali 'Abd al-Hafez 'Udwan
Fatah
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39. Mahmoud Sami Khalil 'Aram
infiltrator
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40. Mu’tassem Muhammad Atallah
Hamas attempt stabbing
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41. Thaer Khalil Muhammad Mislet
rioter
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42. Shireen Nasri Anton Abu Akleh
A journalist who was killed in an exchange of fire between the IDF and the Islamic Jihad
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43. Dawood Muhammad 'Abd a-Rahman Zbeidi
Jenin commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade
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44. Amjad Walid Hussein Fayed
PIJ operative.
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45. Gheith Muhammad Rafiq Ziad Yamin
rioter
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46. Zeid Muhammad Sa'id Ghneim
Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade
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47. Bilal Rafiq Tawfiq Qabha
Islamic Jihad 
operativeImage
48. Ghufran Harun Hamed Warasnah
attempted stabbing
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49. 'Odeh Muhammad 'Odeh Sadqah
Fatah threw a Molotov cocktail
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50. Samih Jamal Muhammad 'Amarneh
PIJ operative
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51. Mahmoud Fayez Mahmoud Karajah
rioter
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52. Yusef Naser Hassan Salah
53. Baraa Kamal Ahmad Lahlouh
54. Layth Salah Muhammad Is'id (Abu Srur)
Islamic Jihad cell
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55. Nabil Ahmad Salim Ghanem
Fatah infiltrator
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56. Muhammad 'Abdallah Salah Suliman
Fatah
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57. Muhammad Maher Nafe'a Mar'i
PIJ
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58.Kamel 'Abdallah Kamel 'Alawneh
Hamas
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59. Rafiq Riyad Rafiq Ghanam
Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades operative
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60.'Abd a-Rahman Jamal Suliman Subuh
61. Muhammad Bashar Nimer 'Azizi
PIJ
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62. Hussein Hassan Ibrahim Qawariq
called on to stop moving toward their location and fired warning shots into the air. When he failed to heed their warnings, he was shot.
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63. Amjad Abu Alia,
planned riot
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64. Derar Riad Saleh al-Kafrini
PIJ
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65. Muhammad Ibrahim Kamal al-Shaham
Attempted stabbing
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66. Ibrahim al-Nablusi
67. Islam Sabouh
68. Hussein Jamal Taha
PIJ
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69. Mu’man Yassin Jabber
rioter
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70. Salah Tawfiq Sawafta
Injured during a riot
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71. Wasim Nasser Abu Khalifa
PIJ
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72. Muhammad Arayisha
A Fatah al Aqsa Martyr's brigade operative
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74. Fadi Ghattas
Stabbing attack
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75. Taher Muhammad Zakarna
PIJ
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76. Yazan Afana
77. Samer Khaled
Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade operatives
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78. Muhammad Musa Muhammad Sabaana
PIJ
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79. Haytham Hani Mubarak
used a hammer to attack a soldier
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80. Younes Ghassan Taya
PIJ
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81. Hamad Mustafa Abu Jalda
al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade
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82&83. Ahmad and Abdelrahman Abed
Fatah
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84. Odai Trad Hisham Salah
PIJ
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73. Nidal Jum'ah 'Abdallah Ja'afrah
Stabbed civilians with a screwdriver
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85. Muhammad Abu Juma'a
stabbing attack
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86. Mohamed Abu Kafia
Fatah, car-ramming attack
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87. Saed al-Koni,
Al Aqsa Martyrs "lions" brigade
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88. Abed Hazem
89. Ahmad Alawnah
90. Mohammad al-Wanna
91. Tarek Al-Shaqfa

Al Aqsa Martyrs brigades
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92.Basel Qassem Basbous
93. Khaled al-Anbar
Fatah, ramming attack
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94. Muhammad Hashem Abu Naaseh
PIJ
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95. Fayiz Khaled Damdum
Threw Molotov cocktail and IED
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96.Mahmoud Al-Sous
97.Ahmed Dagharmeh
PIJ operatives
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98. Alaa Zaghal
Al Qassam "lion" brigade
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99. Mahmoud Samudi,
PIJ rioter, was hit along with 88,89,90,91
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100. Osama Adawi,
Hamas rioter
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101. Mehdi Ladado
DFLP rioter
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102. Salama Rafat Sharayah,Fatah rioterImage
103. Adel Ibrahim Adel Daud
Hamas rioter
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104. Majahed Ahmed Muhammad Daud
Fatah activist
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105. Mateen Chabaya
PIJ operative
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106. "The doctor" Abdullah Ahmed Abu teen

Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade operative
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107. Kis Emad Ahjala
Hamas operative
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108. Udai Tamimi
Committed multiple shooting attacks. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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109. Tamer al-Kilani
"Lion's Den" commander
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110.Ali Antar
111. Ham Uday Qayam
112 Wadi al-Huh
113. Ham Uday Sharaf
114. Mashal Baghdadi
"Lion's Den" and Fatah operatives
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115. Salah al-Rahim Briki
PIJ operative
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116. Mahmoud al-Tamimi
Threw IED
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117. Rabi Arfa Rabi
Hamas infiltrator
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118. Muhammad F Uday Nouri
Fatah rioter
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119. Imad Abu Rsheid
120. Ramzi Sami Zabara
"Lion's Den" and PA security force opretives
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121. Mohammed Kamel Jabari 

Committed a shooting attack in Kiryat Arba which killed one Israeli
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122. Barakat Mousa Odeh
Car ramming attack twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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