October Saw Sharp Rise in Terror Attacks in Israel
The number of terrorist attacks recorded in Israel increased last month by almost 30 percent over September — the sharpest rise recorded in any given month over the past year.
The number of terrorist attacks recorded in Israel increased last month by almost 30 percent over September — the sharpest rise recorded in any given month over the past year.
Nine Palestinians were arrested over several months on suspicion of participating in a cell that targeted Israeli security forces with explosive devices, as well as for plotting future attacks against Israeli forces, the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement on Thursday.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority has defended its decision to name a school after the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, calling Israel “deluded” for demanding that Palestinians not honor “martyrs.”
JERUSALEM – Palestinian college students are being encouraged to die by committing terrorist attacks rather than dying natural deaths, as per the inscription of a new monument erected in Al Quds University.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian National Security Forces, the Palestinian Authority body that coordinates with Israel on security matters, published two cartoons demonizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli soldiers.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian children’s drawings posted by President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement show images of “Israel” drinking the blood of Palestinians and eating their bodies with knives and forks.
TEL AVIV – The U.S. blasted the “reprehensible and cowardly” attack in Jerusalem in which an Arab terrorist shot and killed two Israelis and injured six others, and further slammed Palestinian factions for celebrating the shooting.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s security forces have been facing difficult questions as to why they were unable to prevent Sunday’s terror attack that killed two people and injured six others.
The United Nations’ peace envoy to the region denounced Sunday’s deadly shooting by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem, calling it a “terror attack” and censuring Hamas for encouraging such assaults.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority’s official daily published a cartoon propagating the libel that Jews and Israel control the world by controlling every move the U.S. makes.
TEL AVIV – An Arab-Israeli terrorist opened fire on Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill on Sunday morning, wounding at least seven people with two in critical condition, the Israel Police reported.
The latest anti-Semitic cartoon posted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party shows a yarmulke-wearing hooked-nose Jew relaxing in an armchair etched with a Jewish Star of David while he uses a remote control to bomb buildings in Gaza.
TEL AVIV – In its obituary for former prime minister Shimon Peres, The New York Times decided to rewrite the history of the Second Intifada, blaming then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon for kicking of the wave of terrorist attacks by alighting Temple Mount.
Security forces launched a large-scale arms raid in Jenin overnight between Sunday and Monday, seizing large quantities of firearms and shutting down two gun production workshops in the West Bank city.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian activists called on Facebook users on Sunday evening to stage a two-hour boycott of the social media platform and instead use Twitter under the hashtag #FBCensorsPalestine to protest the disabling of a number of Palestinian Facebook accounts engaged in incitement.
JERUSALEM – The summer vacation may be over but the after effects of summer camps geared at inciting Palestinian youth to violence are still being felt by Israelis who are coming to terms with six terror attacks that rocked the country over the weekend.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Minister of Justice dismissed stabbings as “baseless excuses” for what he termed the “murder” and “summary executions” of “unarmed” Palestinians following nine terror attacks in five days.
A Palestinian teenage girl who on Wednesday was shot by Israeli security guards at a West Bank checkpoint, in an apparent suicide attempt, said she had no intention of trying to commit a terror attack, rejecting reports she had told the guards that she was there to die.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas praised a Jordanian terrorist who attempted to stab Israeli Border Police officers in Jerusalem on Friday as “a martyr who watered the pure earth of Palestine with his blood.”
In a demonstration of moral equivalency madness, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov yesterday equated Palestinian terrorism with Israel’s defense against murderous Palestinian attacks.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday blamed the recent spate of terror attacks against Israelis on “martyrs” who had “lost hope.”
TEL AVIV – Following five terror attacks in two days in Jerusalem and the West Bank, the IDF deployed an extra infantry battalion to the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday evening in preparation for a continued surge of violence.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement praised the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics as a “heroic operation” that demonstrated the “courage and power” of Palestinians.
TEL AVIV – A Member of Parliament from the British Labour Party has called on the Home Secretary to bar a senior Palestinian officials and election contender from entry into the UK for inciting to terrorism.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has nominated the convicted murderer of six Israelis in a 1980 terror attack to run for election in Hebron’s municipal council, hailing the terrorist as a “hero” who carried out a “courageous operation.”
TEL AVIV – The son of an American-Israeli murdered by Palestinian terrorists last year rejected a statement from an international organization for scouting claiming that a Palestinian scouts group responsible for naming a course after the murderer had no connection to the global scouts body.
TEL AVIV – A German lawmaker has launched an inquiry into whether the country’s federal government is unwittingly funding Palestinian terrorism.
TEL AVIV – IDF troops and the Shin Bet security agency shut down a Palestinian radio station and arrested five employees Wednesday morning for “broadcasting inciting programs,” the army said.
TEL AVIV – Israel supplies Palestinians with guns and other weapons in order to encourage violence and create internal chaos, a new Palestinian libel claims. “The Israelis have never ceased their efforts to infiltrate Palestinian society and destroy it. There are
TEL AVIV – The Israeli army on Wednesday cleared troops in four cases of allegations of killing Palestinian civilians during the 2014 war with Hamas in Gaza.
JERUSALEM – A clue in the Sunday crossword puzzle in official Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reinforced the false notion that all of Israel as “occupied territory.”
TEL AVIV – Palestinians are a “thorn in the throat of Zionism” who have given Israel “a taste of grief,” according to a new pop song broadcast on official Palestinian Authority television.
TEL AVIV – The indictment of a Hamas operative from Jerusalem accused of funneling funds to the Gaza-based terror group through a foreign agent in Turkey has exposed many aspects of Hamas’ financial finagling, Israeli authorities said on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian was arrested on terror-related charges only three days after being released from a 14-year prison sentence for attempting to poison Israeli diners at a café in the capital, Jerusalem police announced Friday.
TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman unveiled a new “carrot and stick” plan on Wednesday to punish Palestinians who support terrorism, while bestowing privileges on those who don’t.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian children performed in a play depicting “Zionist jailers” executing “heroic prisoners” as part of a closing ceremony for summer camps organized by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian prisoner authority said Monday that Israel has agreed to hand over for burial the bodies of Palestinian terrorists killed while carrying out recent attacks on Israelis.
Palestinian convicted on terrorism charges and released as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap in 2011 was caught working illegally at a construction site in the central Israel city of Ra’anana on Monday.
Israeli troops demolished overnight Sunday the home of a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli girl in June.
Panic ensued when a man wielding a knife ran through Tel Aviv’s Shuk Hacarmel market Friday afternoon.